Community Water System · PWSID AR0000249

Cushman Water System

Serves 1,423 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBatesville, Arkansas
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On record since 1996: 4 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-03-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 45% 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

1996 · Treatment lapse: 1200020052009 · Notice or report: 12010201520202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 125% missed or late test · 150% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 1996-11-05Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,423
Service connections568
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBatesville
EPA ZIP on file72501

Areas served

  • Independence County

Reading this record

Cushman Water System is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,423 people in Batesville, 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.