Community Water System · PWSID NY2212214

Fort Drum

Serves 34,000 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: FederalFort Drum, New York
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On record since 2013: 3 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2017-04-01.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 35% 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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% over the limit · 233% missed or late test · 1

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
0.7 ppb
0.4 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.20 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.20 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served34,000
Service connections1,750
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityFort Drum
EPA ZIP on file13602

Areas served

  • Jefferson County

Reading this record

Fort Drum is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 34,000 people in Fort Drum, 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.