Community Water System · PWSID MD0060010

Springfield Hospital Distribution

Serves 1,500 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: StateSykesville, Maryland
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On record since 2003: 26 violations. 19 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

19Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
73% over the limit · 194% treatment lapse · 123% notice or report · 6

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2024-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2021-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2020-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 63.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2020-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 69.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2019-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 68.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 63.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2016-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 79.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2016-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 79.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 78.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.3×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 61.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 75.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2015-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.80 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2015-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 74.20 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)2015-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 63.70 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/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. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2021-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 69.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 79.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 79.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 78.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2015-11-01Groundwater RuleFailure to Notify Other PWSBack in compliance
  19. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 75.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.80 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2015-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 74.20 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.70 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2011-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  25. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,500
Service connections56
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerState
StatusActive
CitySykesville
EPA ZIP on file21784

Areas served

  • Carroll County

Reading this record

Springfield Hospital Distribution is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,500 people in Sykesville, 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.