Community Water System · PWSID VT0005049

Wheelock Fire District 1

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentLyndonville, Vermont
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1991: 88 violations. 14 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 68 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

14Over the limit
2Treatment lapse2 open
68Missed or late test2 open
4Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 98% 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: 41991 · Over the limit: 41991 · Missed or late test: 31991 · Missed or late test: 31992 · Over the limit: 41992 · Over the limit: 41992 · Missed or late test: 51992 · Missed or late test: 51992 · Missed or late test: 51993 · Over the limit: 41993 · Over the limit: 41993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Over the limit: 119951998 · Over the limit: 1200020052006 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 212011 · Missed or late test: 2120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212017 · Missed or late test: 212018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% over the limit · 142% treatment lapse · 277% missed or late test · 685% notice or report · 4

Across Vermont, 81% of violations are missed or late tests and 8% are water over a limit.

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

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

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Open now (5)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-10-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2023-11-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  4. 2023-07-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2023-05-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2024-10-10E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2023-11-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  6. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2023-07-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  9. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-05-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  11. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-01-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-05-12Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  19. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-10-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2017-10-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2017-10-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-10-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2017-10-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 63 entries
  1. 2017-10-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-10-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2017-10-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2017-10-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-10-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2017-10-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2017-10-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-10-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2017-10-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2017-10-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2017-10-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-11-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2011-10-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2011-10-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2011-10-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2011-10-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2011-10-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2011-10-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2011-10-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2011-10-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2011-10-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2011-10-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2011-10-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2011-10-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2011-10-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2011-10-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2011-10-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2011-10-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2011-10-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2011-10-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2011-10-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2011-10-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2011-10-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2007-08-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  41. 1998-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  42. 1994-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  43. 1993-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  44. 1993-09-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  45. 1993-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  46. 1993-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  47. 1993-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  48. 1992-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  49. 1992-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  50. 1992-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  51. 1992-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  52. 1992-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  53. 1992-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  54. 1992-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  55. 1992-03-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  56. 1992-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  57. 1991-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  58. 1991-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  59. 1991-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  60. 1991-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  61. 1991-08-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  62. 1991-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  63. 1991-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLyndonville
EPA ZIP on file05850

Areas served

  • Wheelock, Caledonia County

Reading this record

Wheelock Fire District 1 is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Lyndonville, 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.