Community Water System · PWSID NH0583030

Cotton Farms MHP

Serves 390 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEast Hampstead, New Hampshire
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On record since 2005: 11 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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1Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Treatment lapse: 12009 · Treatment lapse: 120102012 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Treatment lapse: 12013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 136% treatment lapse · 427% missed or late test · 327% notice or report · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 8.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  2. 2021-09-09Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2013-11-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2013-09-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  7. 2013-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2012-12-21Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  9. 2009-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  10. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  11. 2005-07-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served390
Service connections156
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEast Hampstead
EPA ZIP on file03826

Areas served

  • Danville, Rockingham County

Reading this record

Cotton Farms MHP is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 390 people in East Hampstead, 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.