Community Water System · PWSID AR0000737

Buena Vista-Ogemaw Water Association

Serves 384 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateCamden, 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 2005: 19 violations. 5 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 85% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 1200520102014 · Over the limit: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 220152018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
26% over the limit · 542% missed or late test · 832% notice or report · 6

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2024-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2024-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 87.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 87.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)
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.

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2014-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2014-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2014-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served384
Service connections162
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCamden
EPA ZIP on file71711

Areas served

  • Ouachita County

Reading this record

Buena Vista-Ogemaw Water Association is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 384 people in Camden, 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.