Community Water System · PWSID AR0000622

Batts-Lapile Water Association

Serves 583 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateStrong, Arkansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2001: 9 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-12-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 67% 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

2001 · Over the limit: 1200520102014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 122% missed or late test · 267% notice or report · 6

Across Arkansas, 36% of violations are missed or late tests and 15% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2021-12-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2015-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-12-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2016-01-28Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2015-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2001-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served583
Service connections230
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityStrong
EPA ZIP on file71765

Areas served

  • Union County

Reading this record

Batts-Lapile Water Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 583 people in Strong, 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.