Community Water System · PWSID AR0000552

Junction City Waterworks

Serves 726 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentJunction City, 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 2004: 13 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-07-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
8Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 76% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 120052009 · Notice or report: 1201020152017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
15% treatment lapse · 223% missed or late test · 362% notice or report · 8

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  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. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-10-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  9. 2017-09-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  10. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served726
Service connections270
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityJunction City
EPA ZIP on file71749

Areas served

  • Union County

Reading this record

Junction City Waterworks is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 726 people in Junction City, 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.