Transient Non-Community · PWSID VT0008204

Point Bay Marina

Serves 305 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMiami, Florida
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Surface water treatment (SWTR). 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 1992: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 2 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2017-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
2Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 46% of active water systems in Florida. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1992 · Treatment lapse: 1199520002005201020152017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 125% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 2

Across Florida, 85% 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×+Combined Radium (-226 and...2017-10-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 8.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.6×)
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.

Open now (1)

  1. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 8.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  2. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Open

System details

Population served305
Service connections17
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMiami
EPA ZIP on file33179

Areas served

  • Charlotte, Chittenden County

Reading this record

Point Bay Marina is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 305 people in Miami, Florida. 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.