Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY5206623

Blue Cliff Monastery

Serves 55 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePine Bush, New York
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On record since 2013: 20 violations. 13 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-01-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test
7Notice or report

More violations on record than 81% 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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
65% missed or late test · 1335% notice or report · 7

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2020-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2018-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2018-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2018-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2018-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2017-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2015-09-18E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2013-12-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served55
Service connections8
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPine Bush
EPA ZIP on file12566

Areas served

  • Sullivan County

Reading this record

Blue Cliff Monastery is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 55 people in Pine Bush, 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.