Desoto Correctional Inst
Community water system in Arcadia, DeSoto County, Florida, serving 3,134 people from ground water. 6 rules violated in the past three years, 2 still unresolved. Owned by state or territorial government.
Quarterly compliance history
2023
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2026
Still in violation
EPA data updated Oct 7, 2026
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Monitoring and Reporting
1 violation, Apr 2008 to open
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
Monitoring and Reporting1 violation, Apr 2008 to open
Monitoring and Reporting: 1 violation, open since Apr 2008. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
What the rule requires: The Stage 2 DBPR, effective 2006, tightened compliance requirements for TTHMs and HAA5 by shifting from system-wide averages to a locational running annual average (LRAA), ensuring high-exposure locations are not masked by low readings elsewhere. It applies to all community and non-transient non-community water systems that disinfect.
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Consumer Confidence Rule
Other Violation
1 violation, Jul 2025 to open
Consumer Confidence Rule
Other Violation1 violation, Jul 2025 to open
Other Violation: 1 violation, open since Jul 2025. A requirement other than monitoring, reporting, or a contaminant limit, such as public notice or the annual water quality report.
What the rule requires: Community water systems must deliver an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) to all customers by July 1, covering the previous year. It must list all detected contaminants, compare them to MCLs, identify source water, and include educational language about lead. A violation means the report was not delivered on time or was incomplete.
About this ruleAlso violated in the past three years
Jul to Sep 2023 to Jul to Sep 2026
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring Violation
2 violations, Oct 2025 to Feb 2026
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring Violation2 violations, Oct 2025 to Feb 2026
Monitoring Violation: 2 violations, Oct 2025 to Feb 2026. The system did not complete required monitoring. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
What the rule requires: The 2013 RTCR (effective 2016) replaced the original TCR. It triggers automatic E. coli testing whenever total coliform is found. A single E. coli-positive sample is an acute MCL violation. It also requires systems exceeding 5% total coliform-positive samples to conduct a formal assessment and correct any deficiencies, helping prevent contamination before it escalates.
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Ground Water Rule
Monitoring and Reporting
6 violations, Dec 2023 to Feb 2026 · E. coli (Escherichia coli)
Ground Water Rule
Monitoring and Reporting6 violations, Dec 2023 to Feb 2026 · E. coli (Escherichia coli)
Monitoring and Reporting: 6 violations, Dec 2023 to Feb 2026. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
Contaminant on the record: E. coli (Escherichia coli).
Nitrate Rule
Monitoring and Reporting
2 violations, Jan 2023 to Feb 2026
Nitrate Rule
Monitoring and Reporting2 violations, Jan 2023 to Feb 2026
Monitoring and Reporting: 2 violations, Jan 2023 to Feb 2026. The system did not complete required monitoring, or did not report the results on time. This does not show that a contaminant was found.
What the rule requires: Nitrate (NO₃) is the most common chemical contaminant in US groundwater, entering from fertilizers, septic systems, and animal waste. It is odorless and tasteless — the only way to know if it's present is to test.
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Radionuclides and Revised Rad Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation
Health-based
5 violations, Oct 2023 to Mar 2025 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U · 5 measured values
Radionuclides and Revised Rad Rule
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation Health-based5 violations, Oct 2023 to Mar 2025 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U · 5 measured values
Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, health-based: 5 violations, Oct 2023 to Mar 2025. A sample exceeded the maximum contaminant level EPA allows in drinking water.
Jan to Mar 2025
Oct to Dec 2024
Apr to Jun 2024
Jan to Mar 2024
Oct to Dec 2023
Contaminant on the record: Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U.
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U, health effects: Alpha-emitting radionuclides accumulate in bone and soft tissue, delivering sustained internal radiation doses that increase lifetime cancer risk. There is no established safe threshold for ionizing radiation. Individual contributors such as radium-226 and polonium-210 have their own MCLs; gross alpha serves as a cost-effective screening tool that triggers more specific radionuclide analysis when exceeded. Limit: 15 pCi/L (excluding radon and uranium)
Lead and copper at the tap
The 90th percentile of the tap samples the system collected in its latest monitoring period, against EPA's action level. Levels vary between homes.
Action level 0.015 mg/L · Jan to Dec 2024
About this data
Rules violated and the list above come from EPA's SDWIS violation records, one row per violation and contaminant, grouped by the rule each row belongs to. A violation counts when its non-compliance period ended on or after Jul 1, 2023, the start of the thirteen quarters ECHO's three-year figures cover, or is still open; it is unresolved when it was still open at EPA's data refresh on Oct 7, 2026. EPA's rule code 500, "Not Regulated", is left out, as in ECHO's counts. Each rule's violation count is EPA's, and one rule can carry several: a missed monitoring round for a group of contaminants is one violation per contaminant and period. Category names are EPA's violation categories.
ECHO's own summary count of rules violated agrees with this grouping for 98.8% of active systems nationally, and its count of rules being violated for 98.7%; where they differ, the figures here follow the rows listed.
A measured value shown with a rule is the sample result EPA recorded with that violation (SDWIS viol_measure), against the limit EPA recorded on the same row (state_mcl), both in EPA's unit as written; violations without a recorded value, such as missed monitoring, show none. Other measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.
Lead and copper are the newest 90th-percentile results in EPA's SDWA data download (LCR_SAMPLES, codes PB90 and CU90), retrieved on Oct 12, 2026: for each monitoring period a system reports the 90th-percentile value of its tap samples, which EPA compares with its action level of 0.015 mg/L for lead and 1.3 mg/L for copper (40 CFR 141.80). A result is not a measurement of any one tap.
Service area from EPA's Public Water System Service Area Boundaries dataset: Random Forest method, Federal agency. The system's location is the centre of the service area EPA publishes for the system.
Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The Florida records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet. Retrieved from ECHO on Oct 11, 2026.