Community Water System · PWSID ND3501069

Selz Water Users Association

Serves 43 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSelz, North Dakota
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 2008: 4 violations. 2 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-02.

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
2Missed or late test
2Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 63% of active water systems in North Dakota. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% missed or late test · 250% notice or report · 2

Across North Dakota, 69% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% 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

3 ppb
2.6 ppb
2.1 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2009-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2008-07-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-02Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2009-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2008-07-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served43
Service connections29
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySelz
EPA ZIP on file58341

Areas served

  • Pierce County

Reading this record

Selz Water Users Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 43 people in Selz, North Dakota. 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.