Community Water System · PWSID AR0000182

Selma Water Association

Serves 1,600 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMonticello, Arkansas
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On record since 2000: 6 violations. 2 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-02-01.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 55% 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 · Over the limit: 120002001 · Over the limit: 12005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% over the limit · 233% missed or late test · 233% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  4. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2001-05-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2000-05-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,600
Service connections457
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMonticello
EPA ZIP on file71655

Areas served

  • Drew County

Reading this record

Selma Water Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 1,600 people in Monticello, 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.