Community Water System · PWSID OK2006905

Stephens Co Rwd #3 (Meridian)

Serves 1,610 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentComanche, Oklahoma
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1979: 19 violations. 6 over the limit · 13 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-03-19.

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

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 38% 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

1979 · Missed or late test: 119801984 · Over the limit: 11984 · Missed or late test: 11985 · Over the limit: 119851986 · Over the limit: 21986 · Over the limit: 219901993 · Over the limit: 11993 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Over the limit: 119951997 · Missed or late test: 1200020052009 · Missed or late test: 1201020152018 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
32% over the limit · 668% missed or late test · 13

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.1 ppb
0.96 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-03-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-01-01Sodium ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-03E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2009-10-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  8. 1997-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 1995-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 1993-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 1993-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 1986-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 2.00 Back in compliance
  13. 1986-09-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 5.00 Back in compliance
  14. 1985-11-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 Back in compliance
  15. 1984-09-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  16. 1984-09-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 27.00 Back in compliance
  17. 1979-11-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,610
Service connections616
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityComanche
EPA ZIP on file73529

Areas served

  • Stephens County

Reading this record

Stephens Co Rwd #3 (Meridian) is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,610 people in Comanche, 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.