Community Water System · PWSID NY2202349

West Carthage Village

Serves 1,734 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWest Carthage, New York
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On record since 1992: 17 violations. 16 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse. Most recent began 2024-04-01.

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

16Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 78% 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

1992 · Treatment lapse: 1199520002005201020152017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Over the limit: 12022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
94% over the limit · 166% treatment lapse · 1

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2022-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 67.10 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.1×)2022-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 62.40 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.0×)2021-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 70.00 UG/L vs limit 60.00 UG/L (1.2×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.20 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 70.20 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.80 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 93.50 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.70 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.60 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 69.40 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.10 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.40 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 71.50 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 70.00 UG/L · limit 60.00 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 63.50 UG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.60 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.30 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 74.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.90 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,734
Service connections578
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWest Carthage
EPA ZIP on file13619

Areas served

  • Jefferson County

Reading this record

West Carthage Village is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,734 people in West Carthage, 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.