Transient Non-Community · PWSID OH6537312

Usace-Deercreek Dam Park

Serves 240 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalMount Sterling, 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 2019: 3 violations. 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-24.

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
0Missed or late test
3Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 56% 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

2005201020152019 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% 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. 2025-05-24Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2024-05-22Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-24Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2024-05-22Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  3. 2019-05-02Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance

System details

Population served240
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityMount Sterling
EPA ZIP on file43143

Areas served

  • Pickaway County

Reading this record

Usace-Deercreek Dam Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 240 people in Mount Sterling, 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.