Transient Non-Community · PWSID MA1091003

Dcr Erving State Forest

Serves 576 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateAmherst, Massachusetts
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2018: 3 violations. 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2019-05-19.

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
0Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 57% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 3

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2019-05-19Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-05-19Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2019-05-09Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2018-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance

System details

Population served576
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityAmherst
EPA ZIP on file01004

Areas served

  • Erving, Franklin County, 01344

Reading this record

Dcr Erving State Forest is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 576 people in Amherst, Massachusetts. 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.