Community Water System · PWSID OR4100333

City of Gold Hill

Serves 1,220 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentGold Hill, Oregon
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On record since 1994: 37 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 28 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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
4Treatment lapse
28Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 88% of active water systems in Oregon. 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: 11995200020052008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 620202022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% treatment lapse · 476% missed or late test · 2814% notice or report · 5

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% 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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
0.66 ppb
0.66 ppb
0.52 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2024-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2022-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2022-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2022-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2020-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2018-10-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-06-26Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2017-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2008-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,220
Service connections580
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGold Hill
EPA ZIP on file97525

Areas served

  • Jackson County

Reading this record

City of Gold Hill is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,220 people in Gold Hill, Oregon. 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.