Community Water System · PWSID OR4100060

John Day Water District

Serves 350 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateAstoria, Oregon
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. 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 1994: 32 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 24 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
24Missed or late test1 open
7Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 86% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 219951997 · Missed or late test: 120002002 · Notice or report: 22002 · Notice or report: 22003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Missed or late test: 1200520102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 175% missed or late test · 2422% notice or report · 7

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% 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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2025-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2025-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  10. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 2003-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2002-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 1997-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  7. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served350
Service connections101
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAstoria
EPA ZIP on file97103

Areas served

  • Clatsop County

Reading this record

John Day Water District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 350 people in Astoria, 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.