Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY3509355

Highball Tavern

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMiddletown, New York
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2016: 79 violations. 13 missed or late tests · 66 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test
66Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 96% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92016 · Notice or report: 92017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82017 · Notice or report: 82018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 82020 · Notice or report: 820202021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92023 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92024 · Notice or report: 92025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025 · Notice or report: 82025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% missed or late test · 1384% notice or report · 66

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-03-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-08-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-09-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-03-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2025-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-08-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2024-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2024-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  17. 2024-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2023-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2023-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2023-09-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  21. 2023-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2023-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2023-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2023-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 54 entries
  1. 2023-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2022-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2022-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2022-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2021-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2020-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2020-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2020-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2020-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2020-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2020-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2020-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2019-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  27. 2019-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2019-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  29. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2018-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  31. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  32. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  34. 2017-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  35. 2017-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  36. 2017-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  37. 2017-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  38. 2017-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  39. 2017-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  40. 2017-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  44. 2016-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  45. 2016-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  46. 2016-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  47. 2016-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  48. 2016-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  49. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  50. 2016-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  51. 2016-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  52. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  53. 2016-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  54. 2016-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMiddletown
EPA ZIP on file10940

Areas served

  • Orange County

Reading this record

Highball Tavern is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Middletown, 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.