Transient Non-Community · PWSID WA5303063

Fords Prairie Animal Clinic

Serves 36 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCentralia, Washington
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On record since 2016: 6 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 5 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% of active water systems in Washington. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% treatment lapse · 183% missed or late test · 5

Across Washington, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance

System details

Population served36
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCentralia
EPA ZIP on file98532

Areas served

  • Lewis County

Reading this record

Fords Prairie Animal Clinic is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 36 people in Centralia, Washington. 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.