Community Water System · PWSID AR0000640

Johnson Township Water Assoc

Serves 600 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentStrong, Arkansas
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On record since 2005: 19 violations. 5 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-09-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 12019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
26% over the limit · 521% missed or late test · 453% notice or report · 10

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2018-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2021-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2020-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2019-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2019-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2014-03-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2012-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 2005-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served600
Service connections330
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityStrong
EPA ZIP on file71765

Areas served

  • Union County

Reading this record

Johnson Township Water Assoc is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 600 people in Strong, 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.