Transient Non-Community · PWSID NH1698060

Exit 23 Plaza

Serves 225 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNeedham, Massachusetts
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On record since 2003: 10 violations. 1 missed or late test · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-11-01.

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
1Missed or late test
9Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 3201520202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% missed or late test · 190% notice or report · 9

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2014-11-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2014-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2014-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2013-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2008-12-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2006-09-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2005-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2003-02-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served225
Service connections9
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNeedham
EPA ZIP on file02492

Areas served

  • New Hampton, Belknap County

Reading this record

Exit 23 Plaza is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 225 people in Needham, Massachusetts. 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.