Transient Non-Community · PWSID DE00A0858

Shore Stop #270 Milton

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSalisbury, Maryland
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On record since 2019: 5 violations. 5 over the limit. Most recent began 2022-04-11.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 79% of active water systems in Maryland. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 120202022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 5

Across Maryland, 72% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2022-04-11 · Nitrate: measured 11.10 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2020-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.10 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2019-12-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.25 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)2019-03-26 · Nitrate: measured 11.10 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-11NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.10 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-03-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.10 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2019-12-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.25 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2019-03-26NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.10 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySalisbury
EPA ZIP on file21804

Areas served

  • Milton, Sussex County

Reading this record

Shore Stop #270 Milton is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Salisbury, Maryland. 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.