Community Water System · PWSID ND3900001

Abercrombie City of

Serves 263 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentAbercrombie, North Dakota
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2003: 18 violations. 8 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-02.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
10Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 94% of active water systems in North Dakota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
44% missed or late test · 856% notice or report · 10

Across North Dakota, 69% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.2 ppb
2 ppb
0.95 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2016-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2015-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2014-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2012-11-26Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2012-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2011-11-03Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2010-09-18Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2010-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2010-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  16. 2005-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2004-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2003-11-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served263
Service connections122
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAbercrombie
EPA ZIP on file58001-0132

Areas served

  • Abercrombie, Richland County

Reading this record

Abercrombie City of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 263 people in Abercrombie, North Dakota. 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.