Community Water System · PWSID NY2430039

Lowville (T) Wd #1

Serves 350 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentLowville, New York
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On record since 2016: 22 violations. 22 over the limit. Most recent began 2021-04-01.

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

22Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% 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 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 420202021 · 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.
100% over the limit · 22

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 114.30 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.9×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 110.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.8×)2016-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 111.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.9×)2016-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 98.30 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.6×)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 101.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.7×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 78.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 65.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.60 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 78.40 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.70 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 86.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.20 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 93.90 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 121.60 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 129.90 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 129.60 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 139.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 122.70 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 122.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 122.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 126.50 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 113.80 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 114.30 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 110.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 111.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 98.30 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 101.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 78.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served350
Service connections118
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLowville
EPA ZIP on file13367

Areas served

  • Lewis County

Reading this record

Lowville (T) Wd #1 is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 350 people in Lowville, 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.