Community Water System · PWSID NY4100050

Troy City Pws

Serves 51,401 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentGlens Falls, New York
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On record since 2012: 16 violations. 3 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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

3Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 77% 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

200520102012 · Treatment lapse: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
19% over the limit · 313% treatment lapse · 269% missed or late test · 11

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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

85.8 ppb
35.4 ppb
34.7 ppb
30.9 ppb
28.3 ppb
22.9 ppb
16.2 ppb
9.8 ppb
8 ppb
6.4 ppb
6.3 ppb
5.4 ppb
4.6 ppb
3.5 ppb
2.5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.33 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.63 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.60 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2015-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2014-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2014-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2012-01-01LeadMPL Non-ComplianceBack in compliance

System details

Population served51,401
Service connections13,269
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGlens Falls
EPA ZIP on file12801

Areas served

  • Rensselaer County

Reading this record

Troy City Pws is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 51,401 people in Glens Falls, 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.