Community Water System · PWSID ND0900492

Hunter City of

Serves 261 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentHunter, North Dakota
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2012: 13 violations. 6 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-02.

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
6Missed or late test1 open
7Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 90% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · 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 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 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.
46% missed or late test · 654% notice or report · 7

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

13.8 ppb
10 ppb
3.2 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2015-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2012-12-10Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2021-10-11Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2017-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2016-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  13. 2012-12-10Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

System details

Population served261
Service connections165
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHunter
EPA ZIP on file58048

Areas served

  • Hunter, Cass County

Reading this record

Hunter City of is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 261 people in Hunter, 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.