Community Water System · PWSID NH1932020

Golden Hill

Serves 110 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBedford, New Hampshire
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On record since 2018: 5 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2021-07-01.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 64% of active water systems in New Hampshire. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
80% over the limit · 420% missed or late test · 1

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  3. 2018-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 6.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Single Samplemeasured 6.00 PCI/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served110
Service connections44
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBedford
EPA ZIP on file03110

Areas served

  • Plaistow, Rockingham County

Reading this record

Golden Hill is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 110 people in Bedford, New Hampshire. 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.