Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4190629

Columbia Co Pks-Scaponia

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSt Helens, Oregon
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2017: 17 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 16 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2021-07-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

2005201020152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 194% missed or late test · 16

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2017-05-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2021-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-05-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  16. 2017-04-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySt Helens
EPA ZIP on file97051

Areas served

  • Columbia County

Reading this record

Columbia Co Pks-Scaponia is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in St Helens, 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.