Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY4421262

New York Power Authority

Serves 200 peopleSurface WaterOwner: StateMassena, New York
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On record since 2018: 38 violations. 38 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2018-01-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
38Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 90% 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

2005201020152018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 382018 · Missed or late test: 3820202025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 38

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% 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

17 ppb
5.2 ppb
4.7 ppb
4.5 ppb
3.2 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2018-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2018-01-01MetribuzinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2018-01-01DicambaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2018-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2018-01-01AldrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2018-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2018-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-01-01PropachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2018-01-01ButachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2018-01-01DieldrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2018-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2018-01-013-HydroxycarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2018-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2018-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2018-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2018-01-01AldicarbMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2018-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2018-01-01MetolachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2018-01-01Aldicarb sulfoneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2018-01-01Aldicarb sulfoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2018-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 13 entries
  1. 2018-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2018-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2018-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2018-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2018-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2018-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2018-01-01MethomylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-01-01CarbarylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2018-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2018-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2018-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served200
Service connections3
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityMassena
EPA ZIP on file13662

Areas served

  • St. Lawrence County

Reading this record

New York Power Authority is a non-transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 200 people in Massena, 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.