Transient Non-Community · PWSID CT1350024

Dorothy Heroy Recreation Complex

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentStamford, Connecticut
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 open testing or paperwork violations.

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: 18 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-11-06.

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
3Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
14Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 81% of active water systems in Connecticut. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% treatment lapse · 36% missed or late test · 178% notice or report · 14

Across Connecticut, 76% of violations are missed or late tests and 1% are water over a limit.

Open now (5)

  1. 2013-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2009-04-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2009-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2008-09-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2008-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-04-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2021-08-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-08-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2018-05-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2017-10-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2017-04-02Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2013-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2011-11-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2011-08-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2010-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2009-04-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2009-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2008-09-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  15. 2008-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2007-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2006-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2006-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityStamford
EPA ZIP on file06902

Areas served

  • Stamford, Fairfield County

Reading this record

Dorothy Heroy Recreation Complex is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Stamford, Connecticut. 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.