Community Water System · PWSID NH0162310

Whispering Brook

Serves 30 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateIntervale, New Hampshire
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On record since 2014: 12 violations. 9 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-04-01.

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9Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

200520102014 · Treatment lapse: 120152017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
75% over the limit · 98% treatment lapse · 18% missed or late test · 18% notice or report · 1

Across New Hampshire, 37% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

284 ppb
34 ppb
16 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  2. 2024-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 18.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 16.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2019-07-11Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2018-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  9. 2018-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  11. 2017-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  12. 2014-07-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance

System details

Population served30
Service connections12
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityIntervale
EPA ZIP on file03845

Areas served

  • Bartlett, Carroll County

Reading this record

Whispering Brook is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 30 people in Intervale, 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.