Community Water System · PWSID VT0005115

East Berkshire Fire District 1

Serves 184 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: Local GovernmentEast Berkshire, Vermont
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 1991: 55 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 44 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
44Missed or late test
8Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Vermont. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1991 · Missed or late test: 119951998 · Over the limit: 1200020052008 · Treatment lapse: 12010 · Missed or late test: 220102011 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Missed or late test: 322017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 14% treatment lapse · 280% missed or late test · 4415% notice or report · 8

Across Vermont, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% are water over a limit.

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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.9 ppb
3.3 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.2 ppb
1 ppb
0.5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.2 mg/L
2 mg/L

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2018-06-27Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  7. 2017-12-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  11. 2017-07-02Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  14. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-05-26Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-04-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2017-04-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2017-04-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2017-04-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2017-04-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2017-04-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2017-04-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2017-04-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-04-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2017-04-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 30 entries
  1. 2017-04-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-04-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2017-04-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2017-04-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-04-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2017-04-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2017-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-04-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2017-04-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2017-04-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2017-04-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-04-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2017-04-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  20. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  22. 2016-03-11Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2011-10-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2010-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2010-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  28. 2008-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  29. 1998-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  30. 1991-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served184
Service connections70
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityEast Berkshire
EPA ZIP on file05447

Areas served

  • Berkshire, Franklin County

Reading this record

East Berkshire Fire District 1 is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 184 people in East Berkshire, Vermont. 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.