Community Water System · PWSID AR0000014

Montrose Boydell Water System

Serves 473 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentMontrose, 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 2001: 42 violations. 19 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 11 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.

19Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test1 open
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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

2001 · Over the limit: 1200520102012 · Over the limit: 32012 · Over the limit: 32012 · Over the limit: 32012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Over the limit: 32014 · Treatment lapse: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Over the limit: 42021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
45% over the limit · 195% treatment lapse · 226% missed or late test · 1124% 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)2021-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 93.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 95.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 110.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.4×)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 104.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 112.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.4×)2020-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)
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.

Open now (1)

  1. 2012-02-02Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2021-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 93.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2021-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 95.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2020-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 104.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2020-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  17. 2017-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-01-14Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2015-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-03-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2014-12-18Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  24. 2014-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2014-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2014-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 2013-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 2013-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  5. 2013-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2013-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2013-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2013-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2013-02-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2012-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2012-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2012-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2012-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2012-02-02Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  15. 2001-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served473
Service connections184
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMontrose
EPA ZIP on file71658

Areas served

  • Ashley County

Reading this record

Montrose Boydell Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 473 people in Montrose, 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.