Transient Non-Community · PWSID MN5360100

Camp Kooch-I-Ching

Serves 200 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateInternational Falls, Minnesota
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On record since 2016: 13 violations. 7 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
7Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in Minnesota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 32018 · Treatment lapse: 32018 · Treatment lapse: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
54% treatment lapse · 746% missed or late test · 6

Across Minnesota, 77% of violations are missed or late tests and 9% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections27
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityInternational Falls
EPA ZIP on file56649

Areas served

  • Koochiching County

Reading this record

Camp Kooch-I-Ching is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 200 people in International Falls, Minnesota. 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.