Transient Non-Community · PWSID MT0003164

New Life Church

Serves 250 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateBillings, Montana
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On record since 1997: 25 violations. 7 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 15 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-03-01.

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

7Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 88% of active water systems in Montana. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1997 · Missed or late test: 120002004 · Missed or late test: 1200520102014 · Treatment lapse: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
28% over the limit · 712% treatment lapse · 360% missed or late test · 15

Across Montana, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate-Nitrite2022-01-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.20 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2021-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 10.90 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2021-01-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 10.30 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.0×)2020-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.90 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2020-07-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 10.30 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.0×)2020-04-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 11.90 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.2×)2019-10-01 · Nitrate-Nitrite: measured 10.60 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.20 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.90 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.30 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2020-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.90 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2020-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.30 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.90 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2019-10-01Nitrate-NitriteMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.60 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  15. 2019-02-18Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  16. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-18E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2018-11-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2018-06-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-04-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-08-22Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  24. 2004-07-02Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  25. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served250
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBillings
EPA ZIP on file59106

Areas served

  • Billings, Yellowstone County

Reading this record

New Life Church is a transient non-community that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 250 people in Billings, Montana. 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.