Community Water System · PWSID 105300002

Lummi Tribal Water District

Serves 3,699 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Native AmericanBellingham, Washington
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 2007: 132 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 117 missed or late tests · 14 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
117Missed or late test
14Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in Washington. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Missed or late test: 492017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 132023 · Missed or late test: 132023 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 5 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
<1% treatment lapse · 189% missed or late test · 11711% notice or report · 14

Across Washington, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.4 ppb
2.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-12-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  6. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2024-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01Nitrate ×7Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2021-10-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2021-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2021-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2020-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
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  1. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01Nitrate ×5Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2019-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-03-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01Nitrate ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2018-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2018-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2018-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  26. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  27. 2017-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2017-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2017-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2017-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2017-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2017-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2017-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2017-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2017-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2017-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2017-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2017-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2017-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2017-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2017-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2017-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2017-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2017-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228) ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2017-01-01Combined Uranium ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  53. 2017-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  54. 2017-01-01Nitrate ×7Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  55. 2016-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  56. 2016-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  57. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  58. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  59. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  60. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  61. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  62. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  63. 2015-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  64. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  65. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  66. 2015-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  67. 2015-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  68. 2014-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  69. 2014-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  70. 2013-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  71. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  72. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  73. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,699
Service connections1,124
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerNative American
StatusActive
CityBellingham
EPA ZIP on file98226

Areas served

  • Ferndale

Reading this record

Lummi Tribal Water District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 3,699 people in Bellingham, Washington. 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.