Community Water System · PWSID LA1027013

Ward Nine Water System

Serves 489 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateJunction City, Arkansas
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On record since 2015: 28 violations. 9 over the limit · 10 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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

9Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
9Notice or report

More violations on record than 92% 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

200520102015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Notice or report: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
32% over the limit · 936% missed or late test · 1032% notice or report · 9

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)2021-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0860 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0880 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 92.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 85.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 110.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.4×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 110.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.4×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 115.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.4×)
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.

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

2 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2018-12-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  11. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 92.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 110.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2016-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 110.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2016-04-21Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  22. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 115.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served489
Service connections163
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityJunction City
EPA ZIP on file71749

Areas served

  • Claiborne Parish

Reading this record

Ward Nine Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 489 people in Junction City, 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.