Community Water System · PWSID OR4100787

Hideaway Hills Water Company

Serves 45 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateSandy, Oregon
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead and Copper Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2022: 17 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 14 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-07.

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 lapse1 open
14Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 74% of active water systems in Oregon. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 182% missed or late test · 1412% notice or report · 2

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

What you can do

  • Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

17.7 ppb
5.2 ppb
3.2 ppb
2.8 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationOpen
  2. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationOpen
  4. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  5. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  8. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  14. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served45
Service connections13
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySandy
EPA ZIP on file97055

Areas served

  • Clackamas County

Reading this record

Hideaway Hills Water Company is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 45 people in Sandy, Oregon. 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.