Transient Non-Community · PWSID WI8550219

Flints Gold Mine

Serves 30 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateIngram, Wisconsin
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2003: 11 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 2 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-04-21.

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
2Missed or late test
6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Wisconsin. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 2200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Over the limit: 120152018 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% over the limit · 29% treatment lapse · 118% missed or late test · 255% notice or report · 6

Across Wisconsin, 54% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2019-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2004-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-04-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2019-02-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2014-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2011-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2011-07-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2004-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2004-05-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2003-04-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served30
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityIngram
EPA ZIP on file54526

Areas served

  • Ingram, Rusk County

Reading this record

Flints Gold Mine is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 30 people in Ingram, Wisconsin. 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.