Transient Non-Community · PWSID ID1050005

Cherry Creek Trailer Park

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSt. Maries, 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 1995: 24 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
4Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 88% 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

1995 · Missed or late test: 1199520002003 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Missed or late test: 22008 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 12015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Over the limit: 12024 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 24% treatment lapse · 171% missed or late test · 1717% notice or report · 4

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2024-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2023-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
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.

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

17 ppb
4 ppb
3.5 ppb
3.2 ppb
2 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.7 mg/L

Open now (3)

  1. 2016-01-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2014-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2010-05-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2023-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2016-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  8. 2016-02-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  9. 2016-01-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2015-11-05Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  11. 2015-11-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  12. 2015-10-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  13. 2015-09-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  14. 2015-08-07Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2014-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  18. 2010-05-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2008-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2008-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2007-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2006-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2003-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  24. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections20
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySt. Maries
EPA ZIP on file83861

Areas served

  • Benewah County

Reading this record

Cherry Creek Trailer Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 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.