Community Water System · PWSID WA5370450

Quincy Water Department City of

Serves 8,415 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentQuincy, Washington
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On record since 2014: 166 violations. 166 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
166Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 99% of active water systems in Washington. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 802014 · Missed or late test: 8020152016 · Missed or late test: 82016 · Missed or late test: 82018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 620202021 · Missed or late test: 332021 · Missed or late test: 332021 · Missed or late test: 332021 · Missed or late test: 332021 · Missed or late test: 332022 · Missed or late test: 302022 · Missed or late test: 302022 · Missed or late test: 302022 · Missed or late test: 302022 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 72025
One square ≈ 7 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 166

Across Washington, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.1 ppb
0.9 ppb
0.6 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01DicambaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-04-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-04-01BromobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-04-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-04-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-04-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-04-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-04-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-04-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-04-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-04-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-04-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-04-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-04-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-04-011,1-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2022-04-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2022-04-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
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  1. 2022-04-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-04-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-04-01o-ChlorotolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-04-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-04-012,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-04-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-04-01ChloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-04-01BromomethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-04-01ChloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-10-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-10-01BromobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-10-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-10-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-10-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2021-10-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-10-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-10-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2021-10-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2021-10-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2021-10-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-10-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2021-10-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2021-10-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2021-10-011,1-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2021-10-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2021-10-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2021-10-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2021-10-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2021-10-01o-ChlorotolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2021-10-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2021-10-012,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2021-10-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2021-10-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2021-10-01ChloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2021-10-01BromomethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2021-10-01ChloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2021-01-01DicambaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2021-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2021-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2021-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2021-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2021-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2020-01-01DicambaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2020-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2020-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2020-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2020-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2020-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  53. 2018-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  54. 2016-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  55. 2016-01-01DicambaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  56. 2016-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  57. 2016-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  58. 2016-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  59. 2016-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  60. 2016-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  61. 2014-01-01Chlordane ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  62. 2014-01-01Metribuzin ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  63. 2014-01-01Benzo(a)pyrene ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  64. 2014-01-01Hexachlorobenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  65. 2014-01-01Propachlor ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  66. 2014-01-01Butachlor ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  67. 2014-01-01Dieldrin ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  68. 2014-01-01Heptachlor epoxide ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  69. 2014-01-01Heptachlor ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  70. 2014-01-01Lasso ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  71. 2014-01-01Atrazine ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  72. 2014-01-01Metolachlor ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  73. 2014-01-01Hexachlorocyclopentadiene ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  74. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  75. 2014-01-01Simazine ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  76. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  77. 2014-01-01Toxaphene ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  78. 2014-01-01Methoxychlor ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  79. 2014-01-01Bhc-Gamma ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  80. 2014-01-01Endrin ×4Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served8,415
Service connections2,763
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityQuincy
EPA ZIP on file98848

Areas served

  • Grant County

Reading this record

Quincy Water Department City of is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 8,415 people in Quincy, Washington. 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.