Community Water System · PWSID NH0151010

Swains Lake Village Water

Serves 227 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBarrington, New Hampshire
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2006: 6 violations. 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2012-07-01.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 69% of active water systems in New Hampshire. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052006 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 320102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 6

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2009-12-17Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2011-07-10Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2009-12-17Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2009-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2006-09-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served227
Service connections92
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBarrington
EPA ZIP on file03825

Areas served

  • Barrington, Strafford County

Reading this record

Swains Lake Village Water is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 227 people in Barrington, New Hampshire. 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.