Community Water System · PWSID NY5230111

Cold Spring Rd - Liberty

Serves 50 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentLiberty, New York
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On record since 2016: 3 violations. 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2020-10-01.

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
2Missed or late test
1Notice 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: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% missed or late test · 233% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections18
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLiberty
EPA ZIP on file12754-1861

Areas served

  • Sullivan County

Reading this record

Cold Spring Rd - Liberty is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 50 people in Liberty, 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.