Community Water System · PWSID NY0330071

Norma Gardens Apartments

Serves 48 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNorwich, New York
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On record since 2002: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 42% 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

2002 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12010201520202024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 125% missed or late test · 150% notice or report · 2

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Barium2024-04-01 · Barium: measured 2.29 MG/L vs limit 2.00 MG/L (1.1×)
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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6.8 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.2 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-04-01BariumMCL, Averagemeasured 2.29 MG/L · limit 2.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2002-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served48
Service connections24
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNorwich
EPA ZIP on file13815

Areas served

  • Broome County

Reading this record

Norma Gardens Apartments is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 48 people in Norwich, 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.