Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4101081

USFS Bear Springs Rs

Serves 217 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalUnknown, Oregon
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 2012: 17 violations. 2 over the limit · 13 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 74% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 276% missed or late test · 1312% notice or report · 2

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-07-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-07-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  5. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-06-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-06-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-08-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  15. 2014-08-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2013-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  17. 2012-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance

System details

Population served217
Service connections13
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityUnknown
EPA ZIP on file00000

Areas served

  • Wasco County

Reading this record

USFS Bear Springs Rs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 217 people in Unknown, 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.