Community Water System · PWSID AR0000642

Winthrop Water Association

Serves 338 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentForeman, Arkansas
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On record since 1994: 20 violations. 5 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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

5Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 119952000200520102012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 120202023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 510% treatment lapse · 225% missed or late test · 540% notice or report · 8

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2020-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2019-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 65.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 68.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 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. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-06-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  10. 2017-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-03-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2016-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2012-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 1994-08-31Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served338
Service connections136
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityForeman
EPA ZIP on file71836

Areas served

  • Little River County

Reading this record

Winthrop Water Association is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 338 people in Foreman, 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.