Transient Non-Community · PWSID AZ0411069

Az State Parks Picacho Peak

Serves 121 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateEloy, Arizona
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On record since 2018: 4 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2020-07-02.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 21% of active water systems in Arizona. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 225% missed or late test · 125% notice or report · 1

Across Arizona, 65% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2018-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2018-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 17.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.7×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-07-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2019-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 17.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served121
Service connections25
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityEloy
EPA ZIP on file85131

Areas served

  • Picacho, Pinal County

Reading this record

Az State Parks Picacho Peak is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 121 people in Eloy, Arizona. 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.