Community Water System · PWSID AR0000303

Alicia Water System

Serves 146 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentBatesville, Arkansas
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On record since 2011: 4 violations. 2 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-06-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 45% of active water systems in Arkansas. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% missed or late test · 250% notice or report · 2

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-06-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2011-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2011-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served146
Service connections59
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBatesville
EPA ZIP on file72501

Areas served

  • Lawrence County

Reading this record

Alicia Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 146 people in Batesville, Arkansas. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.