Transient Non-Community · PWSID MA1143002

The Rapids Bar and Grill

Serves 75 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHuntington, Massachusetts
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On record since 1979: 8 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2013-10-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

1979 · Missed or late test: 11980 · Missed or late test: 31980 · Missed or late test: 31980 · Missed or late test: 3198019851990199520002004 · Missed or late test: 32004 · Missed or late test: 32004 · Missed or late test: 3200520102013 · Treatment lapse: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 188% missed or late test · 7

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2013-10-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencySystem inactive
  2. 2004-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)System inactive
  3. 2004-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)System inactive
  4. 2004-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)System inactive
  5. 1980-09-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  6. 1980-06-30Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  7. 1980-03-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  8. 1979-12-31Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served75
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHuntington
EPA ZIP on file01050

Areas served

  • Huntington, Hampshire County, 01050

Reading this record

The Rapids Bar and Grill is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 75 people in Huntington, 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.