Community Water System · PWSID FL6534996

Orange Acres Ranch

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateScottsdale, Arizona
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On record since 2016: 25 violations. 5 over the limit · 20 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
20Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% of active water systems in Arizona. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Over the limit: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102024 · Missed or late test: 102025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 580% missed or late test · 20

Across Arizona, 65% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.9 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-08-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  4. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  7. 2024-04-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  10. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  12. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-12-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  14. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2023-07-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  16. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2023-06-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 5.72 PCI/LBack in compliance
  20. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2018-07-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 5.72 PCI/LBack in compliance
  23. 2017-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 5.58 PCI/LBack in compliance
  24. 2016-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.95 PCI/LBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 8.00 PCI/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections138
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityScottsdale
EPA ZIP on file85260

Areas served

  • Lake Wales, Polk County

Reading this record

Orange Acres Ranch is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Scottsdale, Arizona. 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.