Community Water System · PWSID ND0901410

Fradets Orchard Water System

Serves 56 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHorace, North Dakota
Nothing open that measures the water, but 10 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 2004: 35 violations. 12 missed or late tests · 23 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-04-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
23Notice or report10 open

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in North Dakota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2004 · Notice or report: 32004 · Notice or report: 32004 · Notice or report: 32005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 220102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 320202022 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
34% missed or late test · 1266% notice or report · 23

Across North Dakota, 69% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% 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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

16.8 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.93 ppb
0.72 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (10)

  1. 2009-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2008-12-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2008-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2008-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2006-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2006-05-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2005-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2004-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2004-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2004-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2017-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2016-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2015-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  13. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  15. 2014-08-13Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  16. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2013-10-02Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2013-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2010-11-13Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  22. 2010-08-22Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2010-07-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2009-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  25. 2008-12-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
Show the other 9 entries
  1. 2008-06-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2008-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2006-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2006-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2006-05-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2005-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2004-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2004-09-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2004-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served56
Service connections16
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHorace
EPA ZIP on file58047

Areas served

  • Cass County

Reading this record

Fradets Orchard Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 56 people in Horace, North Dakota. 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.