Community Water System · PWSID NE3113701

Funk, Village of

Serves 204 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentFunk, Nebraska
Nothing open right now.

On record since 1980: 10 violations. 5 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 90% 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

1980 · Over the limit: 119801982 · Over the limit: 31982 · Over the limit: 31982 · Over the limit: 319851986 · Missed or late test: 11990199520002004 · Notice or report: 12005201020152018 · Over the limit: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 540% missed or late test · 410% 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×+Selenium1982-10-01 · Selenium: measured 0.0160 vs limit 0.0100 (1.6×)1982-09-30 · Selenium: measured 0.0160 vs limit 0.0100 (1.6×)1982-09-30 · Selenium: measured 0.0160 vs limit 0.0100 (1.6×)
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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

12.7 ppb
12.7 ppb
5 ppb
5 ppb
3.6 ppb
3.4 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-12-01E. ColiMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  5. 2004-01-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 1986-08-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 1982-10-01SeleniumMCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.0160 · limit 0.0100 Back in compliance
  8. 1982-09-30Selenium ×2MCL, Single Samplemeasured 0.0160 · limit 0.0100 Back in compliance
  9. 1980-10-01SeleniumMCL, Single SampleBack in compliance

System details

Population served204
Service connections76
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFunk
EPA ZIP on file68940-0184

Areas served

  • Funk, Phelps County

Reading this record

Funk, Village of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 204 people in Funk, 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.