Transient Non-Community · PWSID OR4193646

Willowcreek Store & Cafe

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateVale, 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 2015: 26 violations. 1 over the limit · 24 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. 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
0Treatment lapse
24Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 420152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 192% missed or late test · 244% notice or report · 1

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)
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.

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-03-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2025-03-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  6. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-12-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2020-09-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2016-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2015-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2015-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityVale
EPA ZIP on file97918

Areas served

  • Malheur County

Reading this record

Willowcreek Store & Cafe is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Vale, 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.