Community Water System · PWSID AR0000654

United Water Association

Serves 450 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentBrinkley, Arkansas
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 2014: 23 violations. 8 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

8Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
14Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 88% 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

200520102014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 220152017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 420202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
35% over the limit · 84% missed or late test · 161% notice or report · 14

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)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 86.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2018-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 90.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 86.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 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.

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2019-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2019-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2019-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 86.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2018-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2018-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2017-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 86.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2017-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2017-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  22. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served450
Service connections196
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBrinkley
EPA ZIP on file72021

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

United Water Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 450 people in Brinkley, 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.