Transient Non-Community · PWSID WI8020491

Barrel Inn

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAshland, Wisconsin
Nothing open that measures the water, but 7 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 2006: 15 violations. 6 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

6Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
8Notice or report7 open

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in Wisconsin. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 12010201520202023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 67% missed or late test · 153% notice or report · 8

Across Wisconsin, 54% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate-Nitrite2024-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 15.16 MG/L vs limit 10.50 MG/L (1.4×)2024-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 17.94 MG/L vs limit 10.50 MG/L (1.7×)2024-04-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 18.95 MG/L vs limit 10.50 MG/L (1.8×)2024-01-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 20.20 MG/L vs limit 10.50 MG/L (1.9×)2023-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 21.15 MG/L vs limit 10.50 MG/L (2.0×)2023-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 22.50 MG/L vs limit 20.50 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Open now (7)

  1. 2009-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2008-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2008-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2007-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2007-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2007-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2006-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 15.16 MG/L · limit 10.50 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 17.94 MG/L · limit 10.50 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-04-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 18.95 MG/L · limit 10.50 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 20.20 MG/L · limit 10.50 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 21.15 MG/L · limit 10.50 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 22.50 MG/L · limit 20.50 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2010-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2009-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2008-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2008-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2007-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2007-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2007-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  15. 2006-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAshland
EPA ZIP on file54806

Areas served

  • Ashland, Ashland County

Reading this record

Barrel Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Ashland, Wisconsin. 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.