Community Water System · PWSID 101611105

North Lapwai

Serves 110 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Native AmericanLapwai, Idaho
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On record since 2005: 24 violations. 1 over the limit · 13 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-10-01.

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
13Missed or late test
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 88% 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: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 220102011 · Missed or late test: 32011 · Missed or late test: 32011 · Missed or late test: 32011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 52014 · Missed or late test: 52014 · Missed or late test: 52014 · Missed or late test: 52014 · Missed or late test: 52015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 154% missed or late test · 1342% notice or report · 10

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2014-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2014-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2011-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2011-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 2011-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2010-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2010-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2010-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2009-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  20. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  22. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  24. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served110
Service connections26
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerNative American
StatusActive
CityLapwai
EPA ZIP on file83540

Areas served

  • Lapwai

Reading this record

North Lapwai is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 110 people in Lapwai, 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.