Community Water System · PWSID MA1203000

Mill River Water Takers Association

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMill River, Massachusetts
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 2009: 13 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-12-26.

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
4Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test2 open
4Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 89% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052009 · Treatment lapse: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Treatment lapse: 12012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
31% treatment lapse · 438% missed or late test · 531% notice or report · 4

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6.5 ppb
3.1 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.9 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2018-12-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2015-06-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  3. 2015-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-12-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-12-19Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2018-03-22DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  4. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2016-03-25DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  6. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2015-06-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  8. 2015-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  9. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2012-03-20Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  12. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2009-12-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections31
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMill River
EPA ZIP on file01244

Areas served

  • New Marlborough, Berkshire County, 01244

Reading this record

Mill River Water Takers Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Mill River, Massachusetts. 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.