Community Water System · PWSID NY5700124

Whitehall Village

Serves 2,800 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentWhitehall, New York
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On record since 2003: 105 violations. 10 over the limit · 8 treatment lapses · 78 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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10Over the limit
8Treatment lapse
78Missed or late test
9Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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

2003 · Treatment lapse: 12004 · Treatment lapse: 12005 · Missed or late test: 120052006 · Treatment lapse: 12007 · Treatment lapse: 320102012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242017 · Missed or late test: 242018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 222020 · Missed or late test: 2220202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Over the limit: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% over the limit · 108% treatment lapse · 874% missed or late test · 789% notice or report · 9

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2023-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2022-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 91.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2022-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 88.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2021-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 81.60 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2021-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 90.80 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 90.50 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.1×)2020-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 83.10 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2020-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 82.00 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 101.70 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.3×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 80.80 UG/L vs limit 80.00 UG/L (1.0×)
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.

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

8.1 ppb
7 ppb
5.6 ppb
2.5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 91.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-10-011,4-DioxaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-04-012829Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-04-012828Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-04-012827Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-012826Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2021-04-012825Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2021-04-012824Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-04-012823Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-04-012822Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-04-012821Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-04-012820Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-04-012819Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-012816Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2021-04-012815Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-04-012814Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-04-012813Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2021-04-012812Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2021-04-012809Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2021-04-012808Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-04-012807Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2021-04-012806Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 80 entries
  1. 2021-04-012805Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-012804Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2021-04-012803Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-04-012802Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-04-012801Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-04-011,4-DioxaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 81.60 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.80 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 90.50 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 83.10 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.00 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01OdorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01ColorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01ZincMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01SulfateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-01-01SilverMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2020-01-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-01ChlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2020-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2018-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  35. 2018-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  36. 2018-04-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  37. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  38. 2017-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2017-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2017-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2017-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2017-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2017-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2017-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-01-01OdorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2017-01-01ColorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  53. 2017-01-01ZincMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  54. 2017-01-01SulfateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  55. 2017-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  56. 2017-01-01SilverMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  57. 2017-01-01ManganeseMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  58. 2017-01-01IronMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  59. 2017-01-01ChlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  60. 2017-01-01Gross Alpha Particle ActivityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  61. 2016-07-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  62. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 101.70 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  63. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  64. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 80.80 UG/L · limit 80.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  65. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  66. 2016-01-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  67. 2015-12-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  68. 2015-11-01Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  69. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  70. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  71. 2015-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  72. 2014-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  73. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  74. 2007-10-01LeadMPL Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  75. 2007-03-01LeadMPL Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  76. 2007-01-01LeadMPL Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  77. 2006-01-01LeadMPL Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  78. 2005-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  79. 2004-01-15Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  80. 2003-07-15LeadMPL Non-ComplianceBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,800
Service connections1,432
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWhitehall
EPA ZIP on file12887

Areas served

  • Washington County

Reading this record

Whitehall Village is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,800 people in Whitehall, 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.