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Boil water advisories in Arkansas

Arkansas: 5 water systems under an active boil water advisory.

0 more systems are under a do-not-drink order and 1 under long-standing notices; see below.

We read this state's own advisory list

The agency that publishes it
Arkansas Dept of Health
What that list covers
Boil water orders published statewide by the Arkansas Department of Health in the table on its boil water order page, one row per order and county. ADH publishes no water-system ID, so each row is matched to an EPA water system by name and county; a name that matches no system, or several, is listed by name and cannot be subscribed to. An order ends when ADH publishes its Date Lifted: one that leaves the page without a lift date is not treated as lifted. ADH keeps a lifted order on the page for a few weeks and an unlifted one until it is lifted.

On our last read, this list showed 6 water systems under a boil water or do-not-drink notice it had not recorded as lifted.

We read it on an hourly cycle. Last successful read

Active boil water advisories

Notices that have been in force for a long time

These systems have been under a notice for more than 90 days. The notices are still in force. They are listed separately so that a notice standing for years does not bury one issued today, and so that the people living under the standing notice are not left off the page.

Recently lifted

Advisories the agency recorded as lifted within the last 14 days. The lift date is the agency's own, not the date we noticed the advisory had gone from its list.

What to do after a boil water advisory is lifted

Where to check instead

Our database holds 455 public water systems in Arkansas. That is a count of what is in our database, not a count of every public water system in the state.

The largest systems we hold data on here, by the population each one reports serving:

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Check a ZIP code

Enter a ZIP code and we will show you the water systems we hold for it, and what the state agency's list said about each one when we last read it.

Questions about this page

Does this page list every boil water advisory in Arkansas?
It lists what Arkansas Dept of Health's own statewide list showed when we last read it, one entry per water system rather than one per notice. A notice a utility issued directly, and never sent to that list, would not appear here.
Where are boil water advisories for Arkansas published?
Arkansas Dept of Health publishes them, and its own statewide list is the list we read into this page on an hourly cycle. The link to it is on this page.
How many water systems does this page cover?
Our database holds 455 public water systems in Arkansas. That is a count of what is in our database, not a count of every public water system in the state. Advisories are counted by water system, keyed on the system's federal identifier, and never by the number of separate notices one system has been given.
Is anything on this page a verdict about whether the water is safe?
This is not a statement that your water is safe. It means the state's list did not name your system. Your utility is the authority for your own water.

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