Transient Non-Community · PWSID VT0020827

Starry Night Cafe

Serves 77 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSouth Burlington, Vermont
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2002: 11 violations. 1 over the limit · 9 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2019-10-14.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 66% 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

2002 · Over the limit: 12002 · Missed or late test: 32002 · Missed or late test: 32002 · Missed or late test: 32003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 182% missed or late test · 99% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2019-10-14Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-10-14Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherOpen
  2. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2004-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2003-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2002-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2002-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2002-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2002-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served77
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySouth Burlington
EPA ZIP on file05403

Areas served

  • Ferrisburgh, Addison County

Reading this record

Starry Night Cafe is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 77 people in South Burlington, 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.