Community Water System · PWSID OR4101072

Johnson Creek Water Service

Surface WaterOwner: PrivateNewberg, Oregon
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 1994: 17 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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 lapse
15Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

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

1994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 2199520002005201020152018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 320202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 188% missed or late test · 156% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/ROpen
  4. 2025-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2024-11-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  13. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served0
Service connections2
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNewberg
EPA ZIP on file97132

Areas served

  • Lincoln County

Reading this record

Johnson Creek Water Service is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 0 people in Newberg, 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.