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Belmont Water Dept/North

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
150 people
Connections
50
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Belmont, NH
County
Belknap
Owner
Local government

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 2007 to 2010.

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, 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

16ppb

90th percentile, 2010

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 16 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 limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

56ppb

Highest yearly average, 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 56 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 77 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.2 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 15 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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.

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 2023 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Belmont Water Dept/North’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 2023.

Testing your own tap

Belmont Water Dept/North’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.

No lab New Hampshire certifies is within 75 miles of the area Belmont Water Dept/North serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 63 certified labs for New Hampshire

Sources

PWSID NH0201020. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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