Community Water System · PWSID VT0005169

Waterville Fire District 1

Serves 84 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentWaterville, Vermont
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1991: 54 violations. 11 over the limit · 6 treatment lapses · 26 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. 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.

11Over the limit
6Treatment lapse
26Missed or late test1 open
11Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Vermont. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

1991 · Over the limit: 21991 · Over the limit: 21991 · Missed or late test: 41991 · Missed or late test: 41991 · Missed or late test: 41991 · Missed or late test: 41992 · Missed or late test: 51992 · Missed or late test: 51992 · Missed or late test: 51992 · Missed or late test: 51992 · Missed or late test: 51993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Over the limit: 41994 · Over the limit: 41994 · Over the limit: 41994 · Over the limit: 41994 · Missed or late test: 31994 · Missed or late test: 31994 · Missed or late test: 31995 · Over the limit: 119951996 · Missed or late test: 21996 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Treatment lapse: 21999 · Treatment lapse: 22000 · Missed or late test: 42000 · Missed or late test: 42000 · Missed or late test: 42000 · Missed or late test: 420002001 · Missed or late test: 22001 · Missed or late test: 22002 · Treatment lapse: 12002 · Missed or late test: 22002 · Missed or late test: 22003 · Over the limit: 32003 · Over the limit: 32003 · Over the limit: 32004 · Over the limit: 120052009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 1111% treatment lapse · 648% missed or late test · 2620% notice or report · 11

Across Vermont, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3 ppb
2.8 ppb
1.1 ppb
0.6 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2000-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-CompliancePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-CompliancePeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-04-28Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-03-11Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2015-11-18Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2004-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2003-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 2003-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 2003-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 2002-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 2002-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 2002-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  24. 2001-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 2001-05-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 28 entries
  1. 2000-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2000-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2000-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2000-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 1999-10-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2OCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  6. 1998-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  7. 1996-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 1996-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 1995-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Acute (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 1994-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 1994-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 1994-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 1994-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 1994-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 1994-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Acute (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 1994-04-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Acute (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 1993-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 1992-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 1992-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 1992-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 1992-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 1992-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 1991-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 1991-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 1991-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  26. 1991-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Acute (TCR)Back in compliance
  27. 1991-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  28. 1991-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served84
Service connections48
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWaterville
EPA ZIP on file05492

Areas served

  • Waterville, Lamoille County

Reading this record

Waterville Fire District 1 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 84 people in Waterville, Vermont. 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.