Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID ID6060002

Basic American Foods Blackfoot

Serves 500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBlackfoot, Idaho
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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: 44 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 42 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. 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
42Missed or late test3 open
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Missed or late test: 202024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% treatment lapse · 195% missed or late test · 422% notice or report · 1

Across Idaho, 80% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% 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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

111 ppb
6 ppb
5 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  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. 2024-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

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. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2024-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2024-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2024-02-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-01-01Temperature (Centigrade) ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01Alkalinity, Total ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01pH ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/Cm ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Calcium ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Initial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  14. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  15. 2023-07-01Temperature (Centigrade) ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-07-01Alkalinity, Total ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-07-01pH ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-07-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/Cm ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-07-01Calcium ×3Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Initial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2017-09-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served500
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBlackfoot
EPA ZIP on file83221

Areas served

  • Bingham County

Reading this record

Basic American Foods Blackfoot is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 500 people in Blackfoot, 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.