Transient Non-Community · PWSID OH2032912

Power Dam Express

Serves 35 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDefiance, Ohio
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 2017: 8 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-06-27.

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
4Missed or late test
3Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 85% of active water systems in Ohio. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 150% missed or late test · 438% notice or report · 3

Across Ohio, 62% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2019-11-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2019-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-06-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-05-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-11-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2019-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  8. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served35
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDefiance
EPA ZIP on file43512

Areas served

  • Defiance County

Reading this record

Power Dam Express is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 35 people in Defiance, Ohio. 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.