Community Water System · PWSID NY3503553

Pine Bush Water District

Serves 7,600 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentPine Bush, New York
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2014: 53 violations. 12 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 32 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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

12Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
32Missed or late test
8Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 92% 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

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Over the limit: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 52021 · Over the limit: 52021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Notice or report: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Over the limit: 32025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Missed or late test: 242025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% over the limit · 122% treatment lapse · 160% missed or late test · 3215% notice or report · 8

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×+ManganeseIron2025-07-01 · Manganese: measured 0.3020 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.0×)2025-07-01 · Manganese: measured 0.3340 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.1×)2025-01-01 · Manganese: measured 0.6060 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (2.0×)2022-10-01 · Manganese: measured 321.00 UG/L vs limit 250.00 UG/L (1.3×)2022-07-01 · Manganese: measured 360.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-10-01 · Manganese: measured 0.5800 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.9×)2021-07-01 · Manganese: measured 580.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (1.9×)2021-04-01 · Iron: measured 370.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (1.2×)2021-04-01 · Manganese: measured 610.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (2.0×)2021-01-01 · Manganese: measured 860.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (2.9×)2020-10-01 · Manganese: measured 610.00 UG/L vs limit 300.00 UG/L (2.0×)
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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

8.7 ppb
3.4 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-07-01Manganese ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 0.3020 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-06-01Manganese ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-06-01Iron ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-05-01Manganese ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-05-01Iron ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-04-01Manganese ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2025-04-01Iron ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2025-03-01Manganese ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2025-03-01Iron ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2025-01-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 0.6060 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2025-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  15. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  16. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2022-10-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 321.00 UG/L · limit 250.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2022-07-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 360.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2022-04-01Manganese ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-04-01Iron ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2021-10-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 0.5800 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2021-07-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 580.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-04-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 370.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 8 entries
  1. 2021-04-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 610.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2021-01-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 860.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2020-10-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 610.00 UG/L · limit 300.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2014-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served7,600
Service connections500
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPine Bush
EPA ZIP on file12566

Areas served

  • Orange County

Reading this record

Pine Bush Water District is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 7,600 people in Pine Bush, 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.