Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4192101

Days Creek Charter School

Serves 230 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentDays Creek, OregonServes a school or daycare
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Lead and Copper 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 1994: 22 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 15 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
5Treatment lapse2 open
15Missed or late test
2Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 80% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 11995200020052008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% treatment lapse · 568% missed or late test · 159% notice or report · 2

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

What you can do

  • Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

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 13 results on file · action level 15 ppb

24 ppb
24 ppb
24 ppb
18 ppb
13 ppb
12 ppb
11 ppb
11 ppb
10 ppb
9 ppb
7 ppb
6 ppb
5 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-06-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationOpen
  3. 2024-12-11Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-06-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationOpen
  4. 2024-12-11Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationOpen
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  6. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-07-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  18. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  21. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served230
Service connections4
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDays Creek
EPA ZIP on file97429

Areas served

  • Douglas County

Reading this record

Days Creek Charter School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 230 people in Days Creek, 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.