Community Water System · PWSID MA1209000

North Adams Water Dept

Serves 13,000 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentNorth Adams, Massachusetts
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On record since 2011: 42 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 39 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. 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
2Treatment lapse
39Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Treatment lapse: 120152017 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · 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.
5% treatment lapse · 293% missed or late test · 392% notice or report · 1

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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.9 ppb
2.4 ppb
2.3 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1260Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2018-01-01Pcb 1262Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1254Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1248Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1242Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1232Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1221Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2018-01-01Aroclor 1016Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2018-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2018-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2018-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2018-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2018-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2018-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2018-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2018-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2018-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2018-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2018-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 17 entries
  1. 2018-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2018-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2018-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2018-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2018-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2018-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2017-03-20DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  15. 2014-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2011-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served13,000
Service connections4,203
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNorth Adams
EPA ZIP on file01247

Areas served

  • North Adams, Berkshire County, 01247

Reading this record

North Adams Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 13,000 people in North Adams, 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.