Community Water System · PWSID AR0000530

Ozark Acres Water Association

Serves 830 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBates Ville, 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 2004: 9 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 67% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 12005201020152020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
22% treatment lapse · 233% missed or late test · 344% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-06-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2020-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2020-09-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  5. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2020-08-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2020-06-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  9. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served830
Service connections363
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBates Ville
EPA ZIP on file72501

Areas served

  • Sharp County

Reading this record

Ozark Acres Water Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 830 people in Bates Ville, 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.