Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY4708532

New York Power Authority Security Compl

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateGilboa, New York

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On record since 2016: 6 violations. 4 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2018-01-01.

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

4Over the limit

0Treatment lapse

2Missed or late test

0Notice or report

More violations on record than 53% 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

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

67% over the limit · 433% 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

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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

2018-01-01ChloromethaneMCL, Averagemeasured 14.00 UG/L · limit 5.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2017-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2017-07-01BromomethaneMCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 UG/L · limit 5.00 UG/LBack in compliance
2017-01-01BromomethaneMCL, Averagemeasured 0.009600 MG/L · limit 0.005000 MG/LBack in compliance
2016-10-01BromomethaneMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0111 MG/L · limit 0.005000 MG/LBack in compliance
2016-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served	50
Service connections	2
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner	State
Status	Active
City	Gilboa
EPA ZIP on file	12076

Areas served

Schoharie County

Reading this record

New York Power Authority Security Compl is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Gilboa, 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.