Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID ID5160030

Malta Schools

Serves 440 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBurley, IdahoServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2005: 18 violations. 17 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
0Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test2 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% of active water systems in Idaho. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005 · Missed or late test: 1200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
94% missed or late test · 176% notice or report · 1

Across Idaho, 80% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% 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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  5. 2024-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-07Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  7. 2024-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2023-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  13. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 2012-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served440
Service connections5
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBurley
EPA ZIP on file83318

Areas served

  • Cassia County

Reading this record

Malta Schools is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 440 people in Burley, Idaho. 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.