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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ID3020016

Zims Hot Spring

Operator location Lewiston, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 300 people served; 135 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

300
People served (this PWS)
135
EPA violations (this PWS)
21
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Zims Hot Spring standing, high SDWIS violation third

300 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Zims Hot Spring sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (135), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (300; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

135
Total EPA violations on record
16%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
300
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
17
County
Adams
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
99
Treatment Tech Violations
19

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 62 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 19 2014
Groundwater Rule TT 19 2020
Nitrate MR 14 2020
Public Notice Other 11 2020
Nitrite MR 4 2011
Groundwater Rule Other 4 2020
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Zims Hot Spring has 135 recorded EPA violations, 79% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 21% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (21 of 135), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

135 Higher than most more violations than 79% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Zims Hot Spring

EPA SDWIS lists 300 people served and 17 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

135 violations · 300 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Zims Hot Spring

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Idaho compares on the same EPA violation measures. Idaho systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater