Community Water System · PWSID OR4100268

Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws

Serves 165 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateClackamas, Oregon
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 1994: 38 violations. 7 over the limit · 23 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-08-29.

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
23Missed or late test
8Notice or report1 open

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

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 2199520002001 · Notice or report: 22001 · Notice or report: 2200520102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 220152017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% over the limit · 761% missed or late test · 2321% notice or report · 8

Across Oregon, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Arsenic2024-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0120 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.2×)2024-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0160 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.6×)2024-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2023-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2021-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0130 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.3×)2020-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0140 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.4×)2020-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0130 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.3×)
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

2.2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.4 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.88 ppb
0.87 ppb
0.87 ppb
0.7 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-08-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-08-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2024-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0160 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-03-29Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2024-03-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2024-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  17. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  18. 2021-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0130 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2020-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0140 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2020-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2020-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0130 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 13 entries
  1. 2019-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2001-10-19Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  13. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served165
Service connections88
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityClackamas
EPA ZIP on file97015

Areas served

  • Jackson County

Reading this record

Paradise/Rogue Meadows Ws is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 165 people in Clackamas, Oregon. 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.