Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY1030236

Taconic Biosciences

Serves 264 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGermantown, New York
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On record since 2008: 22 violations. 18 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-04-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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
18Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% 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

20052008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142021 · Missed or late test: 142022 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
82% missed or late test · 1818% notice or report · 4

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

14.6 ppb
5 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2021-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2017-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2016-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2016-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2008-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served264
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGermantown
EPA ZIP on file12526

Areas served

  • Columbia County

Reading this record

Taconic Biosciences is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 264 people in Germantown, 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.