Community Water System · PWSID NY5903769

Waccabuc Farms Inc.

Serves 26 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWestport, Connecticut
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On record since 2008: 9 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2021-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 66% of active water systems in Connecticut. 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: 22008 · Missed or late test: 220102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Treatment lapse: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 111% treatment lapse · 178% missed or late test · 7

Across Connecticut, 76% of violations are missed or late tests and 1% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Manganese2021-01-01 · Manganese: measured 0.4000 MG/L vs limit 0.3000 MG/L (1.3×)
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 16 results on file · action level 15 ppb

29 ppb
24 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.5 ppb
4 ppb
3.7 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.3 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-01-01ManganeseMCL, Averagemeasured 0.4000 MG/L · limit 0.3000 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2008-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2008-01-10Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served26
Service connections15
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWestport
EPA ZIP on file06880

Areas served

  • Westchester County

Reading this record

Waccabuc Farms Inc. is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 26 people in Westport, Connecticut. 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.