Community Water System · PWSID NH1403020

Presidential Pines/Upper

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGilford, New Hampshire
Nothing open that measures the water, but 25 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2003: 36 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 32 notices or reports. 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.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
32Notice or report25 open

More violations on record than 98% of active water systems in New Hampshire. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Missed or late test: 12003 · Notice or report: 220052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 262012 · Notice or report: 26201520202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 18% missed or late test · 389% notice or report · 32

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Open now (25)

  1. 2012-03-01Public Notice ×25PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2023-07-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2023-04-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.008500 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2012-03-01Public Notice ×25PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2012-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2011-03-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2008-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2007-07-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2006-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2003-09-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2003-07-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2003-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections30
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGilford
EPA ZIP on file03249

Areas served

  • Loudon, Merrimack County

Reading this record

Presidential Pines/Upper is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 people in Gilford, New Hampshire. 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.