Community Water System · PWSID MD0070017

Perry Point V.A. Medical Center

Serves 2,000 peopleSurface WaterOwner: FederalPerry Point, Maryland
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On record since 1998: 16 violations. 8 over the limit · 6 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-07-01.

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

8Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Maryland. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1998 · Missed or late test: 1200020052009 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 838% missed or late test · 613% notice or report · 2

Across Maryland, 72% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2017-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 68.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 66.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 67.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 64.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 89.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 105.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 105.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 104.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)
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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2018-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2017-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 66.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 64.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 105.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 105.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 104.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2012-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2009-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  16. 1998-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,000
Service connections200
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityPerry Point
EPA ZIP on file21902

Areas served

  • Cecil County

Reading this record

Perry Point V.A. Medical Center is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,000 people in Perry Point, Maryland. 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.