Community Water System · PWSID NY1302807

Shorehaven Civic Association

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePoughkeepsie, New York
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On record since 2009: 10 violations. 4 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-01-01.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 66% 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

20052009 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Over the limit: 12012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Over the limit: 22013 · Over the limit: 220152019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 440% missed or late test · 420% notice or report · 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×+Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UIron2019-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 42.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.8×)2012-01-01 · Iron: measured 0.4270 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.4×)
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 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9.1 ppb
7.2 ppb
5.5 ppb
4.7 ppb
4.3 ppb
3 ppb
2.6 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.08 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

3 mg/L
1.8 mg/L
1.4 mg/L
1.4 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-01-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Single Samplemeasured 42.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  6. 2013-10-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 0.5420 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2013-07-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 0.4720 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2012-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2012-01-01IronMCL, Averagemeasured 0.4270 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2009-09-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections100
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPoughkeepsie
EPA ZIP on file12603

Areas served

  • Dutchess County

Reading this record

Shorehaven Civic Association is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in Poughkeepsie, 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.