Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY1316607

El Universal

Serves 27 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBrewster, 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 2016: 52 violations. 52 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-09-01.

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
0Missed or late test
52Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 92% 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

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112017 · Notice or report: 112018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72019 · Notice or report: 72020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 102020 · Notice or report: 1020202021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 52

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-07-27Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2022-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-27Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingOpen
  4. 2022-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2021-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2021-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2021-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2021-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2021-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2020-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2020-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2020-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2020-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2020-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2020-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2020-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2020-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2020-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2019-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2019-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2019-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2019-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 27 entries
  1. 2019-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2019-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2018-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2018-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  8. 2017-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2017-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2017-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2017-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2017-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2017-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2017-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2017-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2016-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2016-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2016-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2016-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2016-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2016-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2016-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2016-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  27. 2016-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served27
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBrewster
EPA ZIP on file10509

Areas served

  • Dutchess County

Reading this record

El Universal is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 27 people in Brewster, 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.