Community Water System · PWSID AR0000556

Strong Waterworks

Serves 1,131 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentStrong, Arkansas
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: DBP Stage 1. 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 2002: 22 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 8 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-09-01.

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
2Treatment lapse1 open
8Missed or late test
12Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 87% 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

2002 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 1200520102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% treatment lapse · 236% missed or late test · 855% notice or report · 12

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2016-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  11. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2016-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorOpen
  15. 2016-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-12-10Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2002-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,131
Service connections436
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityStrong
EPA ZIP on file71765

Areas served

  • Union County

Reading this record

Strong Waterworks is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,131 people in Strong, 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.