Community Water System · PWSID AR0000419

Helena Water Sewer

Serves 2,708 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHelena, Arkansas
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On record since 2000: 23 violations. 1 over the limit · 13 treatment lapses · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-09-01.

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

1Over the limit
13Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
9Notice or report

More violations on record than 88% 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

2000 · Over the limit: 1200020052010201520202023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Treatment lapse: 72023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42024 · Treatment lapse: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 62024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 157% treatment lapse · 1339% notice or report · 9

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

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

9 ppb
6 ppb
6 ppb
5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  5. 2024-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2024-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2024-05-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  10. 2024-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2023-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2023-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  14. 2023-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  16. 2023-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2023-10-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  18. 2023-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-09-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  20. 2023-08-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  21. 2023-07-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  22. 2023-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  23. 2000-02-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served2,708
Service connections1,320
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHelena
EPA ZIP on file72342

Areas served

  • Phillips County

Reading this record

Helena Water Sewer is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,708 people in Helena, 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.