Transient Non-Community · PWSID NY1012936

The Brooks

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBoston, Massachusetts
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On record since 1993: 23 violations. 7 missed or late tests · 16 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-06-01.

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
7Missed or late test
16Notice or report

More violations on record than 93% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1993 · Missed or late test: 21993 · Missed or late test: 219951998 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 220002001 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62024 · Notice or report: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
30% missed or late test · 770% notice or report · 16

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-06-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2024-05-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2024-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2024-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2024-02-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2024-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2023-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2023-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2023-10-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2022-09-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2018-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2017-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2017-11-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2017-03-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2001-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  20. 1998-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  21. 1998-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  22. 1993-04-01Coliform (TCR) ×2Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive

System details

Population served25
Service connections25
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBoston
EPA ZIP on file02128

Areas served

  • Columbia County

Reading this record

The Brooks is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Boston, Massachusetts. 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.