Community Water System · PWSID ID4010111

Paradise Estates Water Corp

Serves 273 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateBoise, Idaho
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 2013: 60 violations. 7 over the limit · 52 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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

7Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
52Missed or late test2 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

200520102013 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442024 · Missed or late test: 442025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 787% missed or late test · 522% notice or report · 1

Across Idaho, 80% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Combined Uranium2016-07-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 32.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-07-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 32.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 32.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 32.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 32.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-01-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 34.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2013-10-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 34.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/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.

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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

10 ppb
9 ppb
7 ppb
7 ppb
6 ppb
6 ppb
5 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2017-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-04-01Combined Uranium ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2024-04-01Styrene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-04-01Ethylbenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-04-01Toluene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-04-01Benzene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-04-01Chlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-04-01Tetrachloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-04-011,1,2-Trichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-04-01Trichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-04-011,2-Dichloropropane ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-04-01Carbon tetrachloride ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-04-011,1,1-Trichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-04-011,2-Dichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-04-01trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-04-011,1-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-04-01Vinyl chloride ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-04-01p-Dichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-04-01o-Dichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-04-01Dichloromethane ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-04-01Xylenes, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-04-01cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-04-011,2,4-Trichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
Show the other 10 entries
  1. 2021-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2017-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2016-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2016-10-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-07-01Combined Uranium ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 32.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2016-04-01Combined Uranium ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 32.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2016-01-01Combined Uranium ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 32.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2013-10-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 34.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served273
Service connections83
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBoise
EPA ZIP on file83709

Areas served

  • Ada County

Reading this record

Paradise Estates Water Corp is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 273 people in Boise, 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.