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Bear View Crossing

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
800 people
Connections
320
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Allenstown, NH
County
Merrimack
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

03275

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Lead, above the action level. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2012.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): New Hampshire’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2022.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

60ppb

90th percentile, 2010 to 2012

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 60 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.3 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 2 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are New Hampshire’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Bear View Crossing’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for New Hampshire cover 2022.

Testing your own tap

Bear View Crossing’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab New Hampshire certifies.

The 3 labs New Hampshire certifies closest to the area Bear View Crossing serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Concord

    Concord, NH · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (603) 228-0525

  • New Hampshire DHHS Public Health Laboratories

    Concord, NH · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (603) 271-3445

  • Nelson Analytical LLC

    Manchester, NH · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (603) 622-0200

All 63 certified labs for New Hampshire

Sources

PWSID NH0043050. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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