Transient Non-Community · PWSID WY5601644

Brush Creek Ranch

Serves 717 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSaratoga, Wyoming
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2014: 45 violations. 6 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 34 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

6Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
34Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 94% of active water systems in Wyoming. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 69% treatment lapse · 476% missed or late test · 342% notice or report · 1

Across Wyoming, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate-Nitrite2024-01-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2020-04-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2020-04-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2020-01-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2019-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 12.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Open now (1)

  1. 2014-11-01Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01Nitrate-Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-01-01Nitrate-Nitrite ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-07-01Nitrate-Nitrite ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Nitrate-Nitrite ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-01Nitrate-Nitrite ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2019-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-07-28Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  19. 2017-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2017-04-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  22. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  23. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2016-04-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2015-01-30Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  4. 2014-11-01Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateOpen
  5. 2014-07-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-04-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served717
Service connections50
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySaratoga
EPA ZIP on file82331

Areas served

  • Saratoga, Carbon County

Reading this record

Brush Creek Ranch is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 717 people in Saratoga, Wyoming. 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.