Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA5400987

Cowpunchers Fountain Springs

Serves 30 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateTerra Bella, California
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On record since 2000: 39 violations. 25 over the limit · 14 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2020-01-01.

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25Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in California. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2000 · Over the limit: 120002001 · Over the limit: 12002 · Over the limit: 12003 · Over the limit: 12005 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Over the limit: 12007 · Over the limit: 12009 · Over the limit: 12010 · Over the limit: 42010 · Over the limit: 42010 · Over the limit: 42010 · Over the limit: 420102011 · Over the limit: 32011 · Over the limit: 32011 · Over the limit: 32012 · Over the limit: 12012 · Missed or late test: 22012 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
64% over the limit · 2536% missed or late test · 14

Across California, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 29% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2020-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.40 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2019-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2019-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 12.10 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2018-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2018-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.60 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2017-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2014-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 58.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2013-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 62.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.4×)2013-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 61.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.4×)2013-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 67.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.5×)2012-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 65.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.4×)2011-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 55.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2011-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 57.30 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2011-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 55.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2010-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 54.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2010-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 57.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2010-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 57.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2010-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 57.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2009-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 57.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2007-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 48.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2006-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 57.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2003-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 50.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2002-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 50.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2001-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 52.10 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2000-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 53.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.40 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2019-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.10 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2018-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.60 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2017-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 2014-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 58.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2013-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2013-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2013-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2013-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 67.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2012-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 65.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2012-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2012-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2011-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 55.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2011-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 57.30 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2011-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 55.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2010-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 54.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2010-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 57.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2010-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 57.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2010-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 57.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2009-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 57.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2007-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 48.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2006-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 57.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2005-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2003-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 50.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2002-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 50.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2001-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 52.10 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2000-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 53.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served30
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityTerra Bella
EPA ZIP on file93270

Areas served

  • Tulare County

Reading this record

Cowpunchers Fountain Springs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 30 people in Terra Bella, California. 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.