Community Water System · PWSID NY3530193

Devans Gate Senior Housing

Serves 96 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNew City, New York
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 2006: 19 violations. 1 over the limit · 12 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-04-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

20052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010201520202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 163% missed or late test · 1232% notice or report · 6

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×+Iron2022-10-01 · Iron: measured 7500.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (25.0×)
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.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

12.5 ppb
4.2 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.6 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-04-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-03-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-02-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2023-04-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-04-01IronMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2022-10-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 7500.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-10-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2007-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2006-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served96
Service connections48
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNew City
EPA ZIP on file10956

Areas served

  • Orange County

Reading this record

Devans Gate Senior Housing is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 96 people in New City, 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.