Community Water System · PWSID AR0000136

Mulberry Waterworks

Serves 1,648 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentMulberry, Arkansas
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On record since 2000: 12 violations. 6 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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6Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

2000 · Treatment lapse: 42000 · Treatment lapse: 42000 · Treatment lapse: 42000 · Treatment lapse: 42000200520102013 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 633% treatment lapse · 417% notice or report · 2

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)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2025-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-09-02 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2017-09-02Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2013-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2000-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2000-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2000-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2000-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,648
Service connections829
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMulberry
EPA ZIP on file72947

Areas served

  • Crawford County

Reading this record

Mulberry Waterworks is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,648 people in Mulberry, 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.