Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY5110639

Captree State Park

Serves 4,100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateBabylon, New York
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On record since 2016: 3 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2023-04-01.

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

More violations on record than 35% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Over the limit: 12023 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% over the limit · 233% missed or late test · 1

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Iron2023-04-01 · Iron: measured 0.5400 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.8×)2022-01-01 · Iron: measured 0.3800 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.3×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-04-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 0.5400 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 0.3800 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2016-05-01Free Residual ChlorineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,100
Service connections6
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityBabylon
EPA ZIP on file11702

Areas served

  • Suffolk County

Reading this record

Captree State Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 4,100 people in Babylon, 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.