Community Water System · PWSID VT0005584

Parsons Hill Partnership

Serves 32 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: PrivateWaitsfield, Vermont
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 1995: 16 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
7Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 75% of active water systems in Vermont. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1995 · Over the limit: 11995 · Missed or late test: 1199520002003 · Missed or late test: 120052009 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 120202025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 113% treatment lapse · 238% missed or late test · 644% notice or report · 7

Across Vermont, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% 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 17 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2500 ppb as filed — a value this high in EPA's file is often µg/L entered as mg/L
33 ppb
22.3 ppb
20.5 ppb
19 ppb
8 ppb
6.1 ppb
4.9 ppb
4.3 ppb
3.3 ppb
3 ppb
3 ppb
2.7 ppb
2.5 ppb
2 ppb
1.7 ppb
0.7 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2018-10-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-08-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  7. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  8. 2016-10-31E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-07-12Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2003-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 1995-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 1995-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served32
Service connections12
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWaitsfield
EPA ZIP on file05673

Areas served

  • Castleton, Rutland County

Reading this record

Parsons Hill Partnership is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 32 people in Waitsfield, Vermont. 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.