Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CT1219013

Salem Elementary School

Serves 675 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSalem, ConnecticutServes a school or daycare
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On record since 1995: 32 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 29 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2022-12-30.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
29Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 88% of active water systems in Connecticut. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1995 · Treatment lapse: 1199520002002 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Treatment lapse: 1200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Missed or late test: 172020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 291% missed or late test · 293% notice or report · 1

Across Connecticut, 76% of violations are missed or late tests and 1% are water over a limit.

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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Every violation on record

  1. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2020-12-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-01-01SulfateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-01-01SilverMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2020-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2020-01-01ChlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  25. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2015-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2005-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  6. 2002-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance

System details

Population served675
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySalem
EPA ZIP on file06420

Areas served

  • Salem, New London County

Reading this record

Salem Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 675 people in Salem, Connecticut. 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.