Community Water System · PWSID VT0005229

Rutland City Water Dept

Serves 18,500 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentProctor, Vermont
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On record since 1992: 3 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

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

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

More violations on record than 31% of active water systems in Vermont. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1992 · Treatment lapse: 11995 · Over the limit: 11995200020052010201520202023 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% over the limit · 233% treatment lapse · 1

Across Vermont, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2023-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 60.50 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)
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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 60.50 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 1995-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served18,500
Service connections6,121
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityProctor
EPA ZIP on file05765

Areas served

  • Rutland City, Rutland County

Reading this record

Rutland City Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 18,500 people in Proctor, Vermont. 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.