Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2120567

Waterfall Resort

Serves 168 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateKetchikan, Alaska
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On record since 1994: 36 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 32 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-06-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
32Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 77% of active water systems in Alaska. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1994 · Missed or late test: 1199520002002 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Treatment lapse: 22004 · Treatment lapse: 22004 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Missed or late test: 52008 · Missed or late test: 52008 · Missed or late test: 52008 · Missed or late test: 52008 · Missed or late test: 52009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 22010 · Missed or late test: 220102014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42014 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52019 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 389% missed or late test · 323% notice or report · 1

Across Alaska, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2018-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-06-10Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2014-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2014-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  19. 2014-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  20. 2014-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2010-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  22. 2010-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 2009-10-07Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 2008-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  25. 2008-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 11 entries
  1. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2008-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 2008-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 2007-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2006-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2005-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2004-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2004-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2004-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2002-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 1994-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served168
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityKetchikan
EPA ZIP on file99901

Areas served

  • Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough

Reading this record

Waterfall Resort is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 168 people in Ketchikan, Alaska. 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.