Community Water System · PWSID ID6210009

Birch Creek Culinary

Serves 120 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePreston, Idaho
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 1994: 41 violations. 2 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 33 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-12-01.

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

2Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
33Missed or late test
3Notice or report3 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 119952000200520102012 · Treatment lapse: 32012 · Treatment lapse: 32012 · Treatment lapse: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 920202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 27% treatment lapse · 380% missed or late test · 337% notice or report · 3

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2012-06-05Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-12-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-08-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-07-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-06-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2020-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-08-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-06-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-12-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2018-10-01Groundwater Rule ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2016-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2015-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Acute (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2012-06-05Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2012-04-30Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 1994-01-02Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served120
Service connections31
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPreston
EPA ZIP on file83263

Areas served

  • Franklin County

Reading this record

Birch Creek Culinary is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 120 people in Preston, 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.