Community Water System · PWSID VT0005359

Alpen Meadows

Serves 112 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLudlow, Vermont
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On record since 1991: 10 violations. 2 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2016-09-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 64% of active water systems in Vermont. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1991 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Over the limit: 21994 · Over the limit: 2199520002002 · Notice or report: 1200520102014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 270% missed or late test · 710% notice or report · 1

Across Vermont, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% 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

6.1 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2015-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 1994-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 1994-05-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 1991-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served112
Service connections27
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLudlow
EPA ZIP on file05149

Areas served

  • Ludlow, Windsor County

Reading this record

Alpen Meadows is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 112 people in Ludlow, Vermont. 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.