Transient Non-Community · PWSID SD4680103

Coe-Cottonwood Springs Rec Area

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalHot Springs, South Dakota
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 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 2004: 10 violations. 2 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-06-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
8Notice or report6 open

More violations on record than 82% of active water systems in South Dakota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 1201020152019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% missed or late test · 280% notice or report · 8

Across South Dakota, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 10% are water over a limit.

Open now (6)

  1. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2007-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2006-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2005-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2004-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2004-09-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2020-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2007-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2006-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2005-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2004-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2004-09-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityHot Springs
EPA ZIP on file57747

Areas served

  • Fall River County, 57325,57339,57747

Reading this record

Coe-Cottonwood Springs Rec Area is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Hot Springs, South Dakota. 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.