Community Water System · PWSID AR0000080

Lake Chicot Water Association

Serves 1,909 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentLake Village, Arkansas
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On record since 2003: 19 violations. 10 over the limit · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

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

10Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
9Notice 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

2003 · Over the limit: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Over the limit: 12015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 320152018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
53% over the limit · 1047% notice or report · 9

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)2023-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 118.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.5×)2023-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 101.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2022-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2022-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 91.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2020-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 103.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 121.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.5×)2015-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 123.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.5×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 117.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.5×)
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. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 118.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 101.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2022-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 91.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2020-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2019-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 103.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 121.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 123.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 117.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2010-01-15Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2003-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,909
Service connections819
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLake Village
EPA ZIP on file71653-0000

Areas served

  • Chicot County

Reading this record

Lake Chicot Water Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 1,909 people in Lake Village, 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.