Community Water System · PWSID OR4100689

City of Rainier

Serves 1,932 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentRainier, Oregon
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On record since 2008: 89 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 84 missed or late tests · 2 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
3Treatment lapse
84Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

20052008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312017 · Missed or late test: 312018 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 520202022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 394% missed or late test · 842% notice or report · 2

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
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  1. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-04-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2020-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-07-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2019-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-04-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2017-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  28. 2017-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2017-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2017-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2017-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2017-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2017-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2017-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2017-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2017-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2017-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2017-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2017-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2017-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2017-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2017-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2017-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2017-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  53. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  54. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  55. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  56. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  57. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  58. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,932
Service connections919
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRainier
EPA ZIP on file97048

Areas served

  • Columbia County

Reading this record

City of Rainier is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,932 people in Rainier, 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.