Community Water System · PWSID NY5430047

Ulysses Wd #3

Serves 400 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentTrumasnburg, New York
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On record since 2019: 6 violations. 6 over the limit. Most recent began 2020-10-01.

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

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

More violations on record than 53% 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

2005201020152019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 420202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 6

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2020-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2020-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 96.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.2×)2020-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 89.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2019-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 84.25 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.5 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 96.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 84.25 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served400
Service connections100
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityTrumasnburg
EPA ZIP on file14886

Areas served

  • Tompkins County

Reading this record

Ulysses Wd #3 is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 400 people in Trumasnburg, 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.