Community Water System · PWSID MA1283015

White Pines Condominiums

Serves 225 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLenox, Massachusetts
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On record since 2011: 6 violations. 1 over the limit · 5 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2017-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 75% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% over the limit · 183% missed or late test · 5

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% 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 18 results on file · action level 15 ppb

131 ppb
52.2 ppb
32.1 ppb
22 ppb
14.3 ppb
14.2 ppb
12.7 ppb
12.2 ppb
11.5 ppb
11.1 ppb
10 ppb
9.5 ppb
9.3 ppb
8.2 ppb
7.3 ppb
6 ppb
4.8 ppb
1.3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-10-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  5. 2013-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2011-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served225
Service connections70
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLenox
EPA ZIP on file01240

Areas served

  • Stockbridge, Berkshire County, 01262

Reading this record

White Pines Condominiums is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 225 people in Lenox, Massachusetts. 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.