Community Water System · PWSID NH1521010

Meredith Water Dept

Serves 3,750 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentMeredith, New Hampshire

Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2006: 10 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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

3Treatment lapse

1Missed or late test

6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 84% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

30% treatment lapse · 310% missed or late test · 160% notice or report · 6

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

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

42 ppb

6 ppb

2 ppb

1 ppb

0 ppb

Open now (2)

2015-07-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

2023-07-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
2023-04-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
2023-01-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
2022-03-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2022-01-11Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2015-07-20Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
2014-06-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served	3,750
Service connections	1,216
Water source	Surface Water
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Meredith
EPA ZIP on file	03253

Areas served

Meredith, Belknap County

Reading this record

Meredith Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 3,750 people in Meredith, 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.