Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NH0269040

Joyful Noise Learning Center

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBow, New HampshireServes a school or daycare
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead and Copper Rule. 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 2018: 35 violations. 1 over the limit · 5 treatment lapses · 14 missed or late tests · 15 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-19.

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

1Over the limit
5Treatment lapse1 open
14Missed or late test
15Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 32019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 114% treatment lapse · 540% missed or late test · 1443% notice or report · 15

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

What you can do

  • Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

44 ppb
28 ppb
26 ppb
26 ppb
25 ppb
19 ppb
19 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-10-22Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-19Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-09Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-10-10Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-03-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-09Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2023-12-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-10-22Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationOpen
  11. 2022-09-08Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2021-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  15. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2020-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2019-12-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2019-11-22Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  19. 2019-11-16Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  20. 2019-11-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  21. 2019-11-12Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  22. 2019-10-06E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2019-08-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-03-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
Show the other 8 entries
  1. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2019-02-06E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0140 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBow
EPA ZIP on file03304

Areas served

  • Bow, Merrimack County

Reading this record

Joyful Noise Learning Center is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Bow, 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.