Community Water System · PWSID AR0000978

South Pike Co Water

Serves 755 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMurfreesboro, Arkansas
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On record since 2010: 11 violations. 10 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse. Most recent began 2020-01-01.

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

10Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% 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

20052010 · Treatment lapse: 120102015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 220152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
91% over the limit · 109% treatment lapse · 1

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2020-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 89.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 86.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 86.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2010-02-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served755
Service connections345
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMurfreesboro
EPA ZIP on file71958

Areas served

  • Pike County

Reading this record

South Pike Co Water is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 755 people in Murfreesboro, 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.