Transient Non-Community · PWSID ID2250098

USFS Ohara Bar Campground

Serves 40 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalKamiah, Idaho
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On record since 1980: 18 violations. 13 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 3 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2023-11-27.

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13Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 84% of active water systems in Idaho. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1980 · Over the limit: 119801981 · Over the limit: 11985 · Over the limit: 21985 · Over the limit: 219851986 · Over the limit: 11987 · Over the limit: 21987 · Over the limit: 21988 · Over the limit: 11990 · Over the limit: 119901993 · Over the limit: 11995 · Over the limit: 119951999 · Over the limit: 12000 · Missed or late test: 1200020052009 · Over the limit: 12009 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
72% over the limit · 136% treatment lapse · 117% missed or late test · 36% notice or report · 1

Across Idaho, 80% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationSystem inactive
  2. 2023-10-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencySystem inactive
  3. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONSystem inactive
  4. 2009-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)System inactive
  5. 2009-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)System inactive
  6. 2000-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)System inactive
  7. 1999-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)System inactive
  8. 1995-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)System inactive
  9. 1993-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)System inactive
  10. 1990-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Single Samplemeasured 174.00 · limit 1.00 System inactive
  11. 1988-09-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  12. 1987-06-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  13. 1987-05-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  14. 1986-05-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  15. 1985-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  16. 1985-05-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  17. 1981-09-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive
  18. 1980-05-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, AverageSystem inactive

System details

Population served40
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityKamiah
EPA ZIP on file83536

Areas served

  • Idaho County

Reading this record

USFS Ohara Bar Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 40 people in Kamiah, Idaho. 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.