Transient Non-Community · PWSID AZ0403309

Orchard Canyon Lodge

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateSedona, Arizona
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2013: 11 violations. 1 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-08-01.

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
7Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 46% of active water systems in Arizona. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 164% missed or late test · 727% notice or report · 3

Across Arizona, 65% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-02-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2023-02-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2021-12-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  8. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2014-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2013-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections22
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CitySedona
EPA ZIP on file86336

Areas served

  • Sedona, Coconino County

Reading this record

Orchard Canyon Lodge is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 people in Sedona, Arizona. 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.