Community Water System · PWSID AZ0412005

Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company

Serves 169 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateTucson, Arizona
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2003: 31 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 20 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-20.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
20Missed or late test
10Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 77% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Missed or late test: 120052008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 165% missed or late test · 2032% notice or report · 10

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

8 ppb
2.4 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  4. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2024-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2024-04-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2023-05-18Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-07-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-04-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2020-07-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  23. 2018-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2004-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served169
Service connections59
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityTucson
EPA ZIP on file85754

Areas served

  • Sonoita, Santa Cruz County

Reading this record

Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 169 people in Tucson, 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.