Community Water System · PWSID ID5240033

Clear Lake Ranch P U D

Serves 54 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBuhl, Idaho
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2000: 43 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 33 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-05.

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 lapse2 open
33Missed or late test1 open
7Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

2000 · Missed or late test: 120002005 · Missed or late test: 1200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 42011 · Notice or report: 42011 · Notice or report: 42011 · Notice or report: 42012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 120152019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · 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: 62023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Treatment lapse: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 32024 · Treatment lapse: 32024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% treatment lapse · 377% missed or late test · 3316% notice or report · 7

Across Idaho, 80% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% 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

6 ppb
2 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-08-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2025-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-08-25Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  4. 2011-08-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2011-02-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-06-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-05-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  10. 2024-08-25Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  11. 2024-08-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2024-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2023-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-07-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-10-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2022-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2015-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2012-05-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2011-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2011-08-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2011-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2011-02-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2011-01-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2000-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served54
Service connections52
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBuhl
EPA ZIP on file83316

Areas served

  • Gooding County

Reading this record

Clear Lake Ranch P U D is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 54 people in Buhl, 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.