Community Water System · PWSID NE3109703

Elk Creek, Village of

Serves 82 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentElk Creek, Nebraska
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On record since 1986: 5 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2022-10-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 72% of active water systems in Nebraska. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1986 · Missed or late test: 1199019951998 · Treatment lapse: 11999 · Notice or report: 120002005201020152020 · Over the limit: 120202022 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 220% treatment lapse · 120% missed or late test · 120% notice or report · 1

Across Nebraska, 48% 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×+Nitrate-Nitrite2020-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
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.

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.8 ppb
2.9 ppb
1.6 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  2. 2020-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 1998-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  5. 1986-11-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served82
Service connections85
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityElk Creek
EPA ZIP on file68348

Areas served

  • Elk Creek, Johnson County

Reading this record

Elk Creek, Village of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 82 people in Elk Creek, Nebraska. 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.