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JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM: EPA violation history, explained

JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 81,888 people get their water from it, across 36,403 connections.

How this compares nationally

JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM has 5 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,838th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 47th percentile nationally.

How JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM compares within AR

Among the 243 AR systems in this dataset, the average is 7.1 health-based violations - JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM is from 2005-01-07 (health-based: 1997-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/12/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

Everything on this page is JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for JONESBORO WATER SYSTEM - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.