Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID LA2013012

Foster Poultry Farms (Arcadia Feedmill)

Serves 30 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLivingston, California
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 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 2013: 21 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 8 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test1 open
8Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
19% over the limit · 45% treatment lapse · 138% missed or late test · 838% notice or report · 8

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

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

2 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (6)

  1. 2023-12-02Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2017-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2016-09-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2016-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2015-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2015-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2023-12-02Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2021-02-05Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01ChlorineNon-Acute MRDLBack in compliance
  6. 2020-10-01ChlorineNon-Acute MRDLBack in compliance
  7. 2020-08-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-07-01ChlorineNon-Acute MRDLBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-01ChlorineNon-Acute MRDLBack in compliance
  10. 2017-02-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2016-09-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2016-08-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-11-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  17. 2015-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  18. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-02-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2013-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2013-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served30
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLivingston
EPA ZIP on file95334

Areas served

  • Bienville Parish

Reading this record

Foster Poultry Farms (Arcadia Feedmill) is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 30 people in Livingston, 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.