Community Water System · PWSID AR0000414

Houston Waterworks

Serves 650 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentPerryville, Arkansas
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On record since 2007: 15 violations. 7 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-06-01.

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
7Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
7Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

20052007 · Treatment lapse: 12009 · Treatment lapse: 120102014 · Treatment lapse: 32014 · Treatment lapse: 32014 · Treatment lapse: 32014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 22015 · Treatment lapse: 22015 · Notice or report: 52015 · Notice or report: 52015 · Notice or report: 52015 · Notice or report: 52015 · Notice or report: 520152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
47% treatment lapse · 77% missed or late test · 147% notice or report · 7

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2015-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2015-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2015-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2015-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2015-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  8. 2015-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2015-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  10. 2014-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  11. 2014-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  12. 2014-10-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  13. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2009-12-19Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  15. 2007-11-15Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance

System details

Population served650
Service connections311
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPerryville
EPA ZIP on file72126

Areas served

  • Perry County

Reading this record

Houston Waterworks is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 650 people in Perryville, 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.