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Payson Village

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

Serves
54 people
Connections
24
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Rindge, NH
County
Cheshire
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

03461

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Arsenic, nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium: New Hampshire’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Chromium (total) and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from March 25, 2014 to March 27, 2017. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits1

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

5.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2014 to 2017

2017: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.1 ppb, in 2014, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2017, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

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

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium 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) and fluoride come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Payson Village’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 March 25, 2014 to March 27, 2017.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Keene City Laboratory

    Swanzey, NH · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 357-9836

  • Nelson Analytical Lab - Keene Division

    Swanzey, NH · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 357-2577

  • Nelson Analytical LLC

    Manchester, NH · about 34 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 NH1992070. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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