Community Water System · PWSID VT0005170

Bradford Village Water System

Serves 1,512 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBradford, Vermont
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On record since 1991: 18 violations. 5 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2004-09-01.

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

5Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 78% 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: 11992 · Over the limit: 11992 · Missed or late test: 11993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Missed or late test: 31994 · Missed or late test: 31994 · Missed or late test: 31995 · Over the limit: 11995 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Missed or late test: 219951997 · Treatment lapse: 11997 · Missed or late test: 21997 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Treatment lapse: 12000 · Over the limit: 120002003 · Over the limit: 12004 · Over the limit: 120052010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
28% over the limit · 511% treatment lapse · 261% missed or late test · 11

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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

17 ppb
10.9 ppb
8.5 ppb
6.9 ppb
6.8 ppb
6 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2004-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Acute (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2003-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 2000-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 1999-10-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  5. 1998-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 1997-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 1997-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  9. 1995-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 1995-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 1995-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 1994-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 1994-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 1994-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 1993-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 1992-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 1992-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 1991-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,512
Service connections573
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBradford
EPA ZIP on file05033

Areas served

  • Bradford, Orange County

Reading this record

Bradford Village Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,512 people in Bradford, 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.