Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4105889

Wells Creek Dist Improv Co

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateScottsburg, Oregon
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Surface water treatment (SWTR). 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 2016: 90 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 86 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
86Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

2005201020152016 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Missed or late test: 452024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025 · Missed or late test: 342025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% over the limit · 11% treatment lapse · 196% missed or late test · 862% 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. 2024-02-08Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2025-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2025-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2025-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2025-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2025-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2024-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2024-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2024-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2024-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2024-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2024-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2024-02-08Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open
  14. 2024-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×3Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-02Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2024-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2020-09-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2018-01-01ColiphageFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  25. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections15
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityScottsburg
EPA ZIP on file97473

Areas served

  • Douglas County

Reading this record

Wells Creek Dist Improv Co is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Scottsburg, 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.