Community Water System · PWSID NH0053010

Well Hill

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAlstead, New Hampshire
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 2003: 3 violations. 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2006-01-16.

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
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 48% of active water systems in New Hampshire. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% missed or late test · 167% notice or report · 2

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2005-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2006-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2005-12-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2003-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections17
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAlstead
EPA ZIP on file03602

Areas served

  • Alstead, Cheshire County

Reading this record

Well Hill is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 people in Alstead, New Hampshire. 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.