Community Water System · PWSID WY5680001

Veterans Administration Medical Center

Serves 685 peopleSurface WaterOwner: FederalSheridan, Wyoming
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead and Copper Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2015: 28 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 23 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-24.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
23Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% of active water systems in Wyoming. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 120202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Missed or late test: 232024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 17% treatment lapse · 282% missed or late test · 237% notice or report · 2

Across Wyoming, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0695 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

What you can do

  • Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

24 ppb
21 ppb
21 ppb
19 ppb
17 ppb
15 ppb
12 ppb
11 ppb
11 ppb
11 ppb
10 ppb
9 ppb
6 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-04-24Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-24Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationOpen
  2. 2024-12-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0695 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served685
Service connections49
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CitySheridan
EPA ZIP on file82801

Areas served

  • Sheridan, Sheridan County

Reading this record

Veterans Administration Medical Center is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 685 people in Sheridan, Wyoming. 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.