Community Water System · PWSID NY1510497

Adirondack Correctional Facility

Serves 2,400 peopleSurface WaterOwner: StateRay Brook, New York
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2006: 43 violations. 1 over the limit · 39 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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
39Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% of active water systems in New York. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052006 · Missed or late test: 120102012 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 122017 · Missed or late test: 122017 · Missed or late test: 122017 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Over the limit: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252022 · Missed or late test: 252024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 191% missed or late test · 397% notice or report · 3

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

7.1 ppb
3.9 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2025-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2024-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-012829Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-012828Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-012827Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-012826Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-012825Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-012824Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-012823Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-012822Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-012821Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-012820Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-012819Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-012816Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-012815Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-012814Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-012813Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-012812Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-012809Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-012808Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-012807Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-01-012806Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2022-01-012805Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2022-01-012804Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 18 entries
  1. 2022-01-012803Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-012802Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-012801Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.25 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2017-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2017-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2017-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2017-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2017-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2012-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2006-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,400
Service connections20
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityRay Brook
EPA ZIP on file12977

Areas served

  • Essex County

Reading this record

Adirondack Correctional Facility is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,400 people in Ray Brook, New York. 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.