Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY3907972

Putnam Valley Elementary Sch

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePutnam Valley, New YorkServes a school or daycare
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On record since 1994: 17 violations. 15 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2022-07-01.

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

15Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 78% 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 119952000200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 320202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
88% over the limit · 1512% missed or late test · 2

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×+Chloride2022-07-01 · Chloride: measured 421.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.7×)2022-04-01 · Chloride: measured 378.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.5×)2022-01-01 · Chloride: measured 396.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.6×)2021-10-01 · Chloride: measured 428.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.7×)2021-01-01 · Chloride: measured 439.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.8×)2020-10-01 · Chloride: measured 557.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (2.2×)2020-01-01 · Chloride: measured 401.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.6×)2020-01-01 · Chloride: measured 428.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.7×)2019-10-01 · Chloride: measured 442.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.8×)2019-04-01 · Chloride: measured 373.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.5×)2018-04-01 · Chloride: measured 455.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.8×)2018-01-01 · Chloride: measured 424.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.7×)2017-10-01 · Chloride: measured 390.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.6×)2017-04-01 · Chloride: measured 379.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/L (1.5×)2017-01-01 · Chloride: measured 409.00 MG/L vs limit 250.00 MG/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.

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

11.7 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.7 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 421.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-04-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 378.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01ChlorideMCL, Averagemeasured 396.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2021-10-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 428.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 439.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2020-10-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 557.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Chloride ×2MCL, Single Samplemeasured 401.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2019-10-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 442.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-04-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 373.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-04-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 455.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 424.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 390.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2017-04-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 379.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2017-01-01ChlorideMCL, Single Samplemeasured 409.00 MG/L · limit 250.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 1994-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPutnam Valley
EPA ZIP on file10579

Areas served

  • Putnam County

Reading this record

Putnam Valley Elementary Sch is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in Putnam Valley, 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.