Transient Non-Community · PWSID MA2028004

First Parish Church of Berlin

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBerlin, MassachusettsServes a school or daycare
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On record since 2015: 38 violations. 17 over the limit · 21 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-04-01.

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

17Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
21Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 620152016 · Missed or late test: 132016 · Missed or late test: 132016 · Missed or late test: 132016 · Missed or late test: 132016 · Missed or late test: 132016 · Missed or late test: 132016 · Missed or late test: 132017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
45% over the limit · 1755% missed or late test · 21

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×+Nitrate2023-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2023-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 18.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.8×)2022-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2022-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 18.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.8×)2022-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2022-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 18.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.8×)2021-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 25.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.5×)2021-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 28.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.8×)2021-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 29.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.9×)2020-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 22.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.2×)2020-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 22.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.2×)2019-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 17.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.7×)2019-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 19.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.9×)2019-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2019-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2018-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 10.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.0×)2018-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 20.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.0×)
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. 2023-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 18.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 18.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 14.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 18.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 25.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 28.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 29.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 22.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 22.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 19.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2019-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2019-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2018-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 10.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 20.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 13 entries
  1. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2015-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2015-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBerlin
EPA ZIP on file01503

Areas served

  • Berlin, Worcester County, 01503

Reading this record

First Parish Church of Berlin is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Berlin, 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.