Transient Non-Community · PWSID NH1438060

Dowds Country Inn

Serves 199 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLyme, New Hampshire
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2007: 23 violations. 7 missed or late tests · 16 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-21.

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
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
16Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
30% missed or late test · 770% notice or report · 16

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-21Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-03-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-10-25Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-09-14Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-06-08Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  14. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2013-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2012-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2011-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2010-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2009-11-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2007-11-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served199
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLyme
EPA ZIP on file03768

Areas served

  • Lyme, Grafton County

Reading this record

Dowds Country Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 199 people in Lyme, 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.