Community Water System · PWSID NH0732040

18 Hughes Ln/Effingham

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAlton, New Hampshire
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On record since 2005: 20 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-14.

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1Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
13Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in New Hampshire. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 115% treatment lapse · 315% missed or late test · 365% notice or report · 13

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-14Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2022-09-04Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2022-09-04Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2022-08-05Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-03-19Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2022-03-19Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2021-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-10-18Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2021-10-18Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  10. 2021-09-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  13. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2015-10-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2014-10-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2009-11-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2008-01-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  19. 2005-12-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections24
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAlton
EPA ZIP on file03809

Areas served

  • Effingham, Carroll County

Reading this record

18 Hughes Ln/Effingham is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 people in Alton, New Hampshire. 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.