Transient Non-Community · PWSID MT0004755

Bitterroot Church of the Nazarene

Serves 75 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateVictor, Montana
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2016: 7 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 4 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2022-12-09.

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
3Treatment lapse1 open
4Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 60% of active water systems in Montana. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
43% treatment lapse · 357% missed or late test · 4

Across Montana, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-12-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-12-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2022-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-10-07E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-11-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served75
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityVictor
EPA ZIP on file59875

Areas served

  • Victor, Ravalli County

Reading this record

Bitterroot Church of the Nazarene is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 75 people in Victor, Montana. 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.