Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2292705

Copper Rail Depot Saloon

Serves 35 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCopper Center, Alaska
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On record since 2015: 4 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2017-02-04.

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
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 36% of active water systems in Alaska. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 32017 · Treatment lapse: 320202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% treatment lapse · 325% missed or late test · 1

Across Alaska, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-02-04Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served35
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCopper Center
EPA ZIP on file99573

Areas served

  • Copper Center, Valdez-Cordova Census Area

Reading this record

Copper Rail Depot Saloon is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 35 people in Copper Center, Alaska. 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.