Built for the operator who wears every hat.
Orevant exists because compliance for a small water system became a full-time job that nobody was hired to do. Our job is to turn scattered public records and moving regulations into one clear picture: what applies to your system, what's due, and what to do about it.
What Orevant is
Orevant is compliance software for small and mid-sized U.S. public water systems. It has three parts: a free system lookup built on official EPA records, a one-time Complete Compliance Scan that evaluates your system against every applicable federal — and where we have deep coverage, state — requirement, and an ongoing monitoring subscription with a living compliance calendar, reminders, and regulatory alerts.
Where the data comes from
- EPA SDWIS / Envirofacts — system profiles, violation history, sanitary survey records, and facility inventories, with the retrieval date shown on every finding.
- Federal regulations — 40 CFR Part 141 and related rules, each requirement in our engine citing the controlling section.
- State primacy programs — state rules modules we build and verify state by state (see coverage), plus agency links for all 50 states.
- The Federal Register and agency announcements — monitored for changes that affect systems like yours.
Our search runs on a locally indexed mirror of the EPA SDWIS registry, re-synced monthly against EPA's quarterly data publications, so lookups are fast and reliable even when federal services are slow. Live federal records are pulled at scan time.
The honesty rules
Compliance software earns trust or it is useless. Three rules are built into the engine:
- Every finding carries a citation. If we can't point at the regulation, we don't say it.
- Uncertainty is labeled, never dressed up. When public records can't confirm something, the finding says "Unable to Verify" — it is never presented as a violation.
- Federal data lags are disclosed. Federal databases can trail state files by a reporting quarter or more; reports say so and tell you to confirm time-sensitive items with your state.
What Orevant is not
Orevant is not a law firm, not a consultancy, and not a replacement for your state's determinations. It's the instrument panel — you and your regulator still fly the plane. We also think you should use the free help that exists: state rural water associations and RCAP-network circuit riders do excellent no-cost onsite work, and an Orevant report gives them a running start.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a record that looks wrong? We want to hear about it: hello@orevant.com. If a scan ever surfaces nothing actionable, we refund it — that guarantee is on the pricing page in writing.