Community Water System · PWSID AR0000518

Horatio Waterworks

Serves 1,278 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHoratio, Arkansas
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 2015: 32 violations. 20 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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
20Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 93% 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

200520102015 · Treatment lapse: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Treatment lapse: 122016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 62017 · Treatment lapse: 62017 · Treatment lapse: 62017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 220202024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
63% treatment lapse · 2019% missed or late test · 619% notice or report · 6

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2016-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2018-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2017-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2017-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  6. 2017-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  8. 2017-09-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  9. 2017-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  12. 2016-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  13. 2016-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  15. 2016-09-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  16. 2016-08-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  18. 2016-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  19. 2016-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2016-05-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  21. 2016-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-04-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  24. 2016-03-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  25. 2016-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2016-01-06Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2016-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  5. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2015-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2015-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,278
Service connections468
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHoratio
EPA ZIP on file71842

Areas served

  • Sevier County

Reading this record

Horatio Waterworks is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,278 people in Horatio, 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.