Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4195360

Siskiyou Field Institute

Serves 25 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentSelma, Oregon
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2018: 28 violations. 8 treatment lapses · 16 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-11-01.

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
8Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% 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

2005201020152018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 82020 · Missed or late test: 820202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Treatment lapse: 42023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
29% treatment lapse · 857% missed or late test · 1614% notice or report · 4

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-02-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-05-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2018-03-23Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySelma
EPA ZIP on file97538

Areas served

  • Josephine County

Reading this record

Siskiyou Field Institute is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 25 people in Selma, 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.