Community Water System · PWSID AR0000856

Nail-Swain Water Association

Serves 970 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentDeer, 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 2005: 20 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

1Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
10Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 86% 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: 120052009 · Treatment lapse: 120102013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 220152018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 32023 · Treatment lapse: 32023 · Treatment lapse: 32023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 120% treatment lapse · 425% missed or late test · 550% notice or report · 10

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-12-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2023-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2023-11-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  8. 2023-10-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  9. 2023-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  13. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2013-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2009-12-12Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  20. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served970
Service connections388
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDeer
EPA ZIP on file72628

Areas served

  • Newton County

Reading this record

Nail-Swain Water Association is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 970 people in Deer, 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.