Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY2530015

Empire Raceway

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLeicester, New York
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On record since 2016: 13 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 73% 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 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12020 · Over the limit: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
15% over the limit · 28% treatment lapse · 154% missed or late test · 723% notice or report · 3

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Iron2020-08-01 · Iron: measured 3.30 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (11.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Unknown contaminantNotification, StatePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-07-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-01Unknown contaminantNotification, StateBack in compliance
  10. 2020-08-01IronMCL, Single Samplemeasured 3.30 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2016-08-01Coliform (TCR)Notification, StateBack in compliance
  13. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLeicester
EPA ZIP on file14481

Areas served

  • Livingston County

Reading this record

Empire Raceway is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Leicester, 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.