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Freedom Village Water Precinct

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
170 people
Connections
68
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Freedom, NH
County
Carroll
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

03836

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 1993 to 2001.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 2.2 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1998. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Arsenic, nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): New Hampshire’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023.

Chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Oct. 26, 2015 to Oct. 22, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

27ppb

90th percentile, 2001

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 27 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

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.49ppb

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.49 ppb, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. Its highest single sample was 0.99 ppb. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Fluoride
  • Nitrate
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
  • Uranium

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?

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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. Arsenic, nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are New Hampshire’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Chromium (total), fluoride and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Freedom Village Water Precinct’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and 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 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Oct. 26, 2015 to Oct. 22, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Freedom Village Water Precinct’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 Freedom Village Water Precinct serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Laconia Water Works Laboratory

    Lakeport, NH · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 524-1096

  • Gorham Wastewater Treatment Facility Laboratory

    Gorham, NH · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 466-3104

  • Katahdin Analytical Services LLC

    Scarborough, ME · about 39 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, PFAS

    (207) 874-2400

All 63 certified labs for New Hampshire

Sources

PWSID NH0861010. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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