Community Water System · PWSID NY5903467

Pietschs Gardens

Serves 337 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: PrivateNorth Salem, New York
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On record since 2012: 70 violations. 8 over the limit · 62 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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
62Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 120152020 · Over the limit: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542024 · Missed or late test: 542025
One square ≈ 5 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 889% missed or late test · 62

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×+Chloride2024-01-01 · Chloride: measured 254.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.0×)2022-01-01 · Chloride: measured 270.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Chloride: measured 260.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.0×)2020-04-01 · Chloride: measured 254.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.0×)
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

2 ppb
2 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01sec-ButylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01n-PropylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01o-XyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01m-XyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01IsopropylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01BromobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-011,1,2,2-TetrachloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-011,1,1,2-TetrachloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 45 entries
  1. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01m-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01p-ChlorotolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01o-ChlorotolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01p-XyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01BromochloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01tert-ButylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-011,3,5-TrimethylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01n-ButylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-011,2,3-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrimethylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-012,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-011,2,3-TrichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-011,3-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-011,1-DichloropropeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01DibromomethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-01Methyl Tert-Butyl EtherMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01HexachlorobutadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01cis-1,3-DichloropropeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01trans-1,3-DichloropropeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01TrichlorofluoromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01ChloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2024-01-01BromomethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2024-01-01DichlorodifluoromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2024-01-01ChloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2024-01-01p-IsopropyltolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2024-01-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 254.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2023-10-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 284.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  32. 2023-07-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 322.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  33. 2023-04-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 270.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  34. 2023-01-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 307.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  35. 2022-01-01ChlorideMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  36. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  37. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  38. 2022-01-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 270.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  39. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  40. 2021-10-01ChlorideMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  41. 2021-04-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 260.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  42. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  43. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  44. 2020-04-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 254.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  45. 2012-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served337
Service connections96
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNorth Salem
EPA ZIP on file10560-1345

Areas served

  • Westchester County

Reading this record

Pietschs Gardens is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 337 people in North Salem, 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.