Community Water System · PWSID OK2005509

Spencer

Serves 3,746 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSpencer, Oklahoma
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On record since 1980: 143 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 135 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
135Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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

1980 · Missed or late test: 119801981 · Over the limit: 11981 · Missed or late test: 11985 · Over the limit: 119851988 · Missed or late test: 119901993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Over the limit: 11995 · Over the limit: 11995200020052009 · Missed or late test: 120102013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 220152018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162018 · Missed or late test: 1162019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 820202023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 10 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 4<1% treatment lapse · 194% missed or late test · 1352% notice or report · 3

Across Oklahoma, 73% of violations are missed or late tests and 19% 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

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01Gross Beta Particle Activity ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228) ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-01-01Combined Uranium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2018-10-01Chlordane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Ethylene Dibromide ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2018-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2018-10-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2018-10-01Pentachlorophenol ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2018-10-01Benzo(a)pyrene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2018-10-01Hexachlorobenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2018-10-012, 4, 5-Tp ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2018-10-012, 4-D ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2018-10-01Heptachlor epoxide ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2018-10-01Heptachlor ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2018-10-01Lasso ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2018-10-01Atrazine ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2018-10-01Carbofuran ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2018-10-01Hexachlorocyclopentadiene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 27 entries
  1. 2018-10-01Dinoseb ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2018-10-01Picloram ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2018-10-01Simazine ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Oxamyl ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-10-01Glyphosate ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01Endothall ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2018-10-01Diquat ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Dalapon ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-10-01Toxaphene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Methoxychlor ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2018-10-01Bhc-Gamma ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2018-10-01Endrin ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2015-11-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-10-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2014-05-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2009-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  20. 1995-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 1994-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 1993-06-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  23. 1988-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 1985-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 7.00 Back in compliance
  25. 1981-07-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 2.00 · limit 1.00 Back in compliance
  26. 1981-07-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  27. 1980-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,746
Service connections1,227
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySpencer
EPA ZIP on file73084

Areas served

  • Oklahoma County

Reading this record

Spencer is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 3,746 people in Spencer, 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.