Community Water System · PWSID MO5031142

Meadow Hills Subdivision

Serves 40 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateFirth, Nebraska
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On record since 1999: 30 violations. 1 over the limit · 16 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test
13Notice or report

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

The record, year by year

1999 · Notice or report: 12000200520102011 · Missed or late test: 32011 · Missed or late test: 32011 · Missed or late test: 32011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 153% missed or late test · 1643% notice or report · 13

Across Nebraska, 48% of violations are missed or late tests and 29% 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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.4 ppb
3.4 ppb
3.4 ppb
0.55 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2023-12-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  18. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2013-04-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2011-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2011-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2011-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2011-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 1999-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served40
Service connections20
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityFirth
EPA ZIP on file68358-0000

Areas served

  • Stone County

Reading this record

Meadow Hills Subdivision is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 40 people in Firth, Nebraska. 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.