Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4194571

Area 61

Serves 260 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMerlin, Oregon
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 2017: 79 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 78 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
78Missed or late test2 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Oregon. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Missed or late test: 72022 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512024 · Missed or late test: 512025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 5 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 199% missed or late test · 78

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 54 entries
  1. 2024-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  31. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  32. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  33. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  34. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  35. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  36. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  37. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  38. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  39. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  40. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  41. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  42. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  43. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  44. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  45. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  46. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  47. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  48. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  49. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  50. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  51. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  52. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  53. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  54. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served260
Service connections5
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMerlin
EPA ZIP on file97532

Areas served

  • Josephine County

Reading this record

Area 61 is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 260 people in Merlin, Oregon. 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.