Community Water System · PWSID NY2402365

Lowville Village

Serves 4,000 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentLowville, New York
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On record since 1999: 28 violations. 26 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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

26Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% 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

1999 · Missed or late test: 120002005201020152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52017 · Over the limit: 52018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62018 · Over the limit: 62019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Over the limit: 52019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
93% over the limit · 267% missed or late test · 2

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)2022-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 88.40 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.5×)2022-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 74.80 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 74.40 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 73.80 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)
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.

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

3.1 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 65.20 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.50 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.40 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 74.80 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 74.40 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 73.80 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-07-01HexanalMCL, Averagemeasured 73.80 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 97.10 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 135.10 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.50 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.70 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 147.20 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 141.10 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 120.10 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.70 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.90 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 96.70 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 102.60 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 115.20 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 91.40 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 96.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.60 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 79.80 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 76.50 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
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  1. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.80 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 76.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 1999-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,000
Service connections1,500
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLowville
EPA ZIP on file13367

Areas served

  • Lewis County

Reading this record

Lowville Village is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 4,000 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.