Community Water System · PWSID OH4900812

Mount Sterling Village Pws

Serves 2,059 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentMount Sterling, Ohio
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 2000: 20 violations. 11 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-08-22.

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
0Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
9Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 96% of active water systems in Ohio. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2000 · Notice or report: 1200020052010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
55% missed or late test · 1145% notice or report · 9

Across Ohio, 62% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% 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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.7 ppb
1.4 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.7 ppb
0.4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2022-08-22Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2021-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2021-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2019-01-07Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-08-22Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2022-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Gross Alpha, Incl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-02-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2021-02-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2019-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-10-01Gross Alpha, Incl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-07Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  9. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2014-12-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  16. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2011-12-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,059
Service connections829
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMount Sterling
EPA ZIP on file43143

Areas served

  • Madison County

Reading this record

Mount Sterling Village Pws is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,059 people in Mount Sterling, Ohio. 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.