Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY5907674

Pound Ridge Elementary School

Serves 300 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: Local GovernmentBedford, New YorkServes a school or daycare
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On record since 2003: 14 violations. 7 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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

7Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

2003 · Treatment lapse: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Treatment lapse: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62023 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 729% treatment lapse · 421% missed or late test · 3

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×+280528062023-01-01 · 2805: measured 0.000012 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.1×)2022-10-01 · 2806: measured 0.000012 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.2×)2022-10-01 · 2805: measured 0.000014 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.4×)2022-07-01 · 2805: measured 0.000015 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.5×)2022-04-01 · 2805: measured 0.000014 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.4×)2022-01-01 · 2805: measured 0.000016 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.6×)2022-01-01 · 2806: measured 0.000012 MG/L vs limit 0.000010 MG/L (1.2×)
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

5 ppb
4 ppb
3.5 ppb
2.4 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-012805MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000012 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-10-012806MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000012 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-012805MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000014 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-012805MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000015 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2022-04-012805MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000014 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-012805MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000016 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-012806MCL, Averagemeasured 0.000012 MG/L · limit 0.000010 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2018-05-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-09-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2008-07-31Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2006-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2003-05-05DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBedford
EPA ZIP on file10506

Areas served

  • Westchester County

Reading this record

Pound Ridge Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 300 people in Bedford, 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.