Community Water System · PWSID NY2830029

Florida (T) Water District

Serves 432 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentAmsterdam, New York
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 2021: 9 violations. 6 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

6Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 64% 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

20052010201520202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% over the limit · 611% treatment lapse · 122% notice or report · 2

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2022-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.78 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2022-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.59 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2022-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 94.70 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 99.28 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 94.11 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 86.52 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)
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.

Open now (2)

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.78 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.59 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 94.70 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 99.28 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 94.11 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 86.52 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served432
Service connections46
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAmsterdam
EPA ZIP on file12010

Areas served

  • Montgomery County

Reading this record

Florida (T) Water District is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 432 people in Amsterdam, 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.