Community Water System · PWSID SD4600036

Batesland

Serves 148 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMartin, South Dakota
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On record since 2001: 41 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 10 missed or late tests · 27 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-04-01.

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
4Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
27Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% of active water systems in South Dakota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2001 · Notice or report: 12004 · Treatment lapse: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102006 · Notice or report: 102007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112007 · Notice or report: 112008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22010 · Treatment lapse: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Treatment lapse: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% treatment lapse · 424% missed or late test · 1066% notice or report · 27

Across South Dakota, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 10% 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9 ppb
7 ppb
4 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2020-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2020-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  8. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2011-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  13. 2010-04-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2010-02-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  15. 2008-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2008-04-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2007-08-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2007-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2007-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2007-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2007-07-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2007-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2007-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2007-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 16 entries
  1. 2007-01-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2007-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2006-12-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2006-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2006-10-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2006-10-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2006-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2006-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2006-07-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2006-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2006-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2004-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2004-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  16. 2001-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served148
Service connections59
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMartin
EPA ZIP on file57551

Areas served

  • Shannon County, 57551,57716

Reading this record

Batesland is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 148 people in Martin, South 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.