Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2220100

Real Life Church

Serves 70 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePalmer, Alaska
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 2015: 4 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2016-06-05.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 36% of active water systems in Alaska. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% treatment lapse · 250% notice or report · 2

Across Alaska, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2015-12-10Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-06-05Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  3. 2015-12-10Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Open

System details

Population served70
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPalmer
EPA ZIP on file99645

Areas served

  • Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough

Reading this record

Real Life Church is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 70 people in Palmer, Alaska. 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.