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Pine Hill Community Assn

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
85 people
Connections
34
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Meredith, NH
County
Belknap
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

03253

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, nitrate and arsenic: 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 June 16, 2015 to April 10, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

7.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.0 ppb, in 2021: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 8.0 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

9.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

2018, one sample: 5.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.2 ppb, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2018, the latest year on file, its one sample was 5.3 ppb.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.86ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 0.73 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.86 ppm, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.73 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.9 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.22ppm

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.22 ppm, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic

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?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleE. coli was confirmed in the water system.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, E. coli (RTCR)July 1, 2020 to Aug. 1, 2020—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, nitrate and arsenic 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. Pine Hill Community Assn’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 June 16, 2015 to April 10, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Pine Hill Community Assn’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 Pine Hill Community Assn 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 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 524-1096

  • New Hampshire DHHS Public Health Laboratories

    Concord, NH · about 25 miles

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

    (603) 271-3445

  • Eurofins Concord

    Concord, NH · about 27 miles

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

    (603) 228-0525

All 63 certified labs for New Hampshire

Sources

PWSID NH1522070. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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