Transient Non-Community · PWSID AZ0415126

Cienega Springs

Serves 146 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateParker, Arizona
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 2014: 22 violations. 16 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
16Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 67% 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

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 420152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
73% missed or late test · 1627% notice or report · 6

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

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-12-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2024-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2023-12-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  12. 2020-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 2014-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served146
Service connections73
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityParker
EPA ZIP on file85344

Areas served

  • Parker, La Paz County

Reading this record

Cienega Springs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 146 people in Parker, 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.