Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY5415456

Enfield Elementary School

Serves 282 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentIthaca, New YorkServes a school or daycare
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2020: 5 violations. 3 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
3Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 48% 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

2005201020152020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
60% missed or late test · 340% notice or report · 2

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% 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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

120 ppb
46 ppb
25 ppb
18 ppb
15.1 ppb
12.4 ppb
12 ppb
10 ppb
8.6 ppb
8 ppb
7.6 ppb
7 ppb
6.7 ppb
5 ppb
3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served282
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityIthaca
EPA ZIP on file14850

Areas served

  • Tompkins County

Reading this record

Enfield Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 282 people in Ithaca, 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.