Community Water System · PWSID AR0000623

Perla Water Association

Serves 1,970 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateLittle Rock, Arkansas
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On record since 2000: 16 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 8 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-07-01.

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

3Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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 · Missed or late test: 22000 · Missed or late test: 220002001 · Missed or late test: 32001 · Missed or late test: 32001 · Missed or late test: 3200520102014 · Over the limit: 12015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 220152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
19% over the limit · 36% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 825% notice or report · 4

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2017-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  7. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2015-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2015-03-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2014-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 2001-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2001-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2001-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2000-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2000-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,970
Service connections811
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLittle Rock
EPA ZIP on file72203

Areas served

  • Hot Spring County

Reading this record

Perla Water Association is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,970 people in Little Rock, 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.