Community Water System · PWSID NH0262040

Cottages at Windchimes

Serves 75 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateConcord, New Hampshire
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On record since 2014: 5 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2016-10-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 64% 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

200520102014 · Treatment lapse: 22014 · Treatment lapse: 22014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% treatment lapse · 240% missed or late test · 220% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2014-10-18Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  3. 2014-03-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2014-03-21Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-21Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served75
Service connections30
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityConcord
EPA ZIP on file03302

Areas served

  • Bow, Merrimack County

Reading this record

Cottages at Windchimes is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 75 people in Concord, 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.