Community Water System · PWSID OK1010808

Pauls Valley

Serves 6,256 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentPauls Valley, Oklahoma
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On record since 1981: 28 violations. 4 over the limit · 6 treatment lapses · 17 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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

4Over the limit
6Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 49% of active water systems in Oklahoma. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101981 · Missed or late test: 101984 · Missed or late test: 119851990 · Over the limit: 41990 · Over the limit: 41990 · Over the limit: 41990 · Over the limit: 419901992 · Missed or late test: 11993 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Missed or late test: 119951997 · Missed or late test: 11998 · Missed or late test: 120002005201020152020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% over the limit · 421% treatment lapse · 661% missed or late test · 174% notice or report · 1

Across Oklahoma, 73% of violations are missed or late tests and 19% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Turbidity1990-06-01 · Turbidity: measured 2.90 vs limit 1.00 (2.9×)1990-05-01 · Turbidity: measured 3.40 vs limit 1.00 (3.4×)1990-04-01 · Turbidity: measured 9.30 vs limit 1.00 (9.3×)
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.

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

6.2 ppb
4.3 ppb
1.9 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor Removalmeasured 0.9500 RATIO · limit 1.00 RATIOBack in compliance
  6. 2023-10-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor Removalmeasured 0.9300 RATIOBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor Removalmeasured 0.9400 RATIOBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 1998-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 1997-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 1995-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 1993-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 1992-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  14. 1990-09-01TurbidityMCL, Averagemeasured 2.60 Back in compliance
  15. 1990-06-01TurbidityMCL, Averagemeasured 2.90 · limit 1.00 Back in compliance
  16. 1990-05-01TurbidityMCL, Averagemeasured 3.40 · limit 1.00 Back in compliance
  17. 1990-04-01TurbidityMCL, Averagemeasured 9.30 · limit 1.00 Back in compliance
  18. 1984-08-01TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 1981-11-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 1981-09-30TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 1981-08-31TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 1981-07-31TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 1981-06-30TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 1981-05-31TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 1981-04-30TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 1981-03-31TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 1981-02-28TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 1981-01-31TurbidityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served6,256
Service connections2,818
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPauls Valley
EPA ZIP on file73075

Areas served

  • Garvin County

Reading this record

Pauls Valley is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 6,256 people in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. 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.