Community Water System · PWSID VT0005262

East Calais Fire District 1

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentEast Calais, Vermont
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 1991: 99 violations. 5 over the limit · 93 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. 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.

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
93Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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: 21992 · Over the limit: 11992 · Missed or late test: 31993 · Over the limit: 11995 · Over the limit: 119951996 · Over the limit: 11997 · Missed or late test: 120002003 · Over the limit: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252017 · Missed or late test: 252018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242021 · Missed or late test: 242022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272024 · Missed or late test: 272025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 594% missed or late test · 931% notice or report · 1

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

10 ppb
2.6 ppb
1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-04-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-04-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2024-04-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2024-04-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2024-04-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2024-04-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2024-04-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2024-04-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2024-04-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2024-04-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2024-04-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2024-04-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2024-04-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2024-04-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2024-04-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2024-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2024-04-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2024-04-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2024-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2024-04-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2024-04-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2024-04-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2024-04-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 74 entries
  1. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-04-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-03-09E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2021-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2021-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2021-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2021-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2021-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2021-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2021-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2021-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2021-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2021-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2021-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  34. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  35. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  36. 2018-12-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  37. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  38. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  39. 2017-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2017-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2017-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2017-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2017-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2017-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2017-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2017-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  53. 2017-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  54. 2017-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  55. 2017-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  56. 2017-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  57. 2017-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  58. 2017-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  59. 2017-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  60. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  61. 2017-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  62. 2017-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  63. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  64. 2003-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  65. 1997-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  66. 1996-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  67. 1995-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  68. 1993-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  69. 1992-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  70. 1992-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  71. 1992-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  72. 1992-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  73. 1991-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  74. 1991-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections62
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityEast Calais
EPA ZIP on file05650

Areas served

  • Calais, Washington County

Reading this record

East Calais Fire District 1 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in East Calais, 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.