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Community Water System · PWS ID6040044

Bear Lake West POA

Operator location Fish Haven, Idaho - 25% of 24 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 300 served per SDWIS.

300
People served (this PWS)
24
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Bear Lake West POA standing, mid SDWIS violation third

25% of 24 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 25% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Bear Lake West POA lands in the middle third by violation volume (24), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (300; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 25% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

24
Total EPA violations on record
25%
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
Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
170
County
Bear Lake
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
14
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 7 2019
Public Notice Other 4 2012
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2013
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 4 2017
E. COLI MR 3 2011
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2010

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Bear Lake West POA has 24 recorded EPA violations, 36% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 63% carry more. 25% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 24), 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)

24 Lower than most fewer violations than 63% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Bear Lake West POA

6 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ID6040044.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

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

What to do with Bear Lake West POA

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
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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