Community Water System · PWSID NH0262030

Bela Brook Water

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBow, New Hampshire
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On record since 2006: 18 violations. 11 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2019-07-01.

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11Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Over the limit: 32013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 420152019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 320202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
61% over the limit · 1117% missed or late test · 322% notice or report · 4

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2015-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2015-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2015-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0350 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2015-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0388 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2014-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0360 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2014-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0326 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2014-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0170 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2014-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0330 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2013-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0324 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2013-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0280 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2013-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2013-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0290 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2007-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  18. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBow
EPA ZIP on file03304

Areas served

  • Bow, Merrimack County

Reading this record

Bela Brook Water is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Bow, 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.