Community Water System · PWSID AR0000562

Wildwood Water Association

Serves 1,350 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEl Dorado, Arkansas
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On record since 2021: 2 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2023-04-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 26% 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

20052010201520202021 · Over the limit: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 150% notice or report · 1

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)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,350
Service connections552
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEl Dorado
EPA ZIP on file71730

Areas served

  • Union County

Reading this record

Wildwood Water Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,350 people in El Dorado, 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.