Community Water System · PWSID CT1699081

Fawn Ridge Association Inc.

Serves 36 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCharlton, Massachusetts
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2011: 27 violations. 8 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 7 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-10.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

8Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
7Missed or late test
10Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
30% over the limit · 87% treatment lapse · 226% missed or late test · 737% notice or report · 10

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Arsenic2019-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2019-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0110 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0220 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (2.2×)2017-07-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0260 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (2.6×)2017-04-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0430 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (4.3×)2017-01-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0270 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (2.7×)2016-10-01 · Arsenic: measured 0.0130 MG/L vs limit 0.0100 MG/L (1.3×)
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.

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 17 results on file · action level 15 ppb

34.4 ppb
2.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.6 ppb
0.6 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  4. 2023-03-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-10-18Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2020-08-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2019-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2019-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0220 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0260 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2017-05-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2017-04-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2017-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0430 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0270 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2016-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0130 MG/L · limit 0.0100 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2016-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2016-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  24. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2011-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 2 entries
  1. 2011-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  2. 2011-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served36
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCharlton
EPA ZIP on file01507

Areas served

  • Woodstock, Windham County

Reading this record

Fawn Ridge Association Inc. is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 36 people in Charlton, 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.