Transient Non-Community · PWSID ID1400006

Big Eddy

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSt. Maries, Idaho
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On record since 1980: 52 violations. 4 over the limit · 48 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
48Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

1980 · Over the limit: 119801985 · Over the limit: 21985 · Over the limit: 21985 · Missed or late test: 21985 · Missed or late test: 219851986 · Missed or late test: 21986 · Missed or late test: 21987 · Missed or late test: 31987 · Missed or late test: 31987 · Missed or late test: 31988 · Missed or late test: 41988 · Missed or late test: 41988 · Missed or late test: 41988 · Missed or late test: 41989 · Missed or late test: 41989 · Missed or late test: 41989 · Missed or late test: 41989 · Missed or late test: 41990 · Missed or late test: 21990 · Missed or late test: 219901991 · Missed or late test: 21991 · Missed or late test: 21992 · Missed or late test: 21992 · Missed or late test: 21993 · Missed or late test: 41993 · Missed or late test: 41993 · Missed or late test: 41993 · Missed or late test: 41994 · Missed or late test: 11995 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Missed or late test: 11998 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Missed or late test: 21999 · Missed or late test: 22000 · Missed or late test: 120002001 · Over the limit: 12002 · Missed or late test: 120052007 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Missed or late test: 1201020152019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 492% missed or late test · 48

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2009-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  14. 2008-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2007-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  16. 2002-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  17. 2001-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)System inactive
  18. 2000-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  19. 1999-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  20. 1999-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  21. 1998-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  22. 1996-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  23. 1995-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  24. 1994-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  25. 1993-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
Show the other 27 entries
  1. 1993-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  2. 1993-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  3. 1993-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  4. 1992-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  5. 1992-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  6. 1991-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  7. 1991-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  8. 1990-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  9. 1990-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  10. 1989-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  11. 1989-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  12. 1989-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  13. 1989-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  14. 1988-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  15. 1988-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  16. 1988-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  17. 1988-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  18. 1987-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  19. 1987-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  20. 1987-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  21. 1986-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  22. 1986-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  23. 1985-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  24. 1985-09-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  25. 1985-05-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  26. 1985-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  27. 1980-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive

System details

Population served100
Service connections31
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySt. Maries
EPA ZIP on file83861

Areas served

  • Shoshone County

Reading this record

Big Eddy is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in St. Maries, 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.