Community Water System · PWSID AR0000550

El Dorado Waterworks

Serves 17,932 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentEl Dorado, Arkansas
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On record since 2020: 4 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2022-11-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice 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

2005201020152020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% over the limit · 325% missed or late test · 1

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×+Asbestos2021-01-01 · Asbestos: measured 9.80 MFL vs limit 7.00 MFL (1.4×)2020-10-01 · Asbestos: measured 45.00 MFL vs limit 7.00 MFL (6.4×)2020-07-01 · Asbestos: measured 45.00 MFL vs limit 7.00 MFL (6.4×)
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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5 ppb
4 ppb
4 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01AsbestosMCL, Averagemeasured 9.80 MFL · limit 7.00 MFLBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01AsbestosMCL, Averagemeasured 45.00 MFL · limit 7.00 MFLBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01AsbestosMCL, Averagemeasured 45.00 MFL · limit 7.00 MFLBack in compliance

System details

Population served17,932
Service connections8,333
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityEl Dorado
EPA ZIP on file71730

Areas served

  • Union County

Reading this record

El Dorado Waterworks is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 17,932 people in El Dorado, 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.