Transient Non-Community · PWSID ID6390004

American Motel

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAmerican Falls, Idaho
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2013: 13 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-11-04.

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
1Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test2 open
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 79% of active water systems in Idaho. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102013 · Notice or report: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 177% missed or late test · 1015% notice or report · 2

Across Idaho, 80% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-11-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-05-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-11-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-05-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2024-01-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-11-26E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2022-05-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-03-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2022-01-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2013-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections4
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAmerican Falls
EPA ZIP on file83211

Areas served

  • Power County

Reading this record

American Motel is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in American Falls, Idaho. 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.