Community Water System · PWSID OK3004011

Cameron Pwa

Serves 302 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentPoteau, Oklahoma
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 1979: 55 violations. 9 over the limit · 35 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

9Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
35Missed or late test
11Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 71% of active water systems in Oklahoma. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1979 · Missed or late test: 11980 · Over the limit: 11980 · Missed or late test: 71980 · Missed or late test: 71980 · Missed or late test: 71980 · Missed or late test: 71980 · Missed or late test: 71980 · Missed or late test: 71980 · Missed or late test: 719801981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121981 · Missed or late test: 121982 · Missed or late test: 31982 · Missed or late test: 31982 · Missed or late test: 31983 · Missed or late test: 11984 · Missed or late test: 21984 · Missed or late test: 2198519901991 · Missed or late test: 21991 · Missed or late test: 21993 · Over the limit: 11993 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Missed or late test: 119951998 · Missed or late test: 1200020052010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% over the limit · 964% missed or late test · 3520% notice or report · 11

Across Oklahoma, 73% of violations are missed or late tests and 19% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2020-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0920 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0620 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.0×)2019-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/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.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2023-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2022-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2020-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-12-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0620 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2019-09-29Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  13. 2019-09-29Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  14. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 1998-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 1995-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 1993-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 30 entries
  1. 1993-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 1991-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 1991-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 1984-08-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 1984-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 1983-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 1982-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 1982-02-28Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 1982-01-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 1981-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 1981-11-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 1981-10-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 1981-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 1981-08-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 1981-07-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 1981-06-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 1981-05-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 1981-04-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 1981-03-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 1981-02-28Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 1981-01-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 1980-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 1980-11-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 1980-10-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 1980-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 1980-06-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  27. 1980-06-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 4.00 · limit 1.00 Back in compliance
  28. 1980-04-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 1980-03-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 1979-10-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served302
Service connections168
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPoteau
EPA ZIP on file74953

Areas served

  • Le Flore County

Reading this record

Cameron Pwa is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 302 people in Poteau, Oklahoma. 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.