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Saco Pines

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
50 people
Connections
20
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Conway, NH
County
Carroll
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

03813

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.7 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1993. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Uranium, arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), 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, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Jan. 27, 2015 to Jan. 23, 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

77ppb

90th percentile, 1993

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 77 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

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

29.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 28 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 29.4 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 28 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 23.5 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.8ppm

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

2018, one sample: 1.8 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.8 ppm, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2018, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.8 ppm.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.3 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Nitrate
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

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

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform or E. coli results required a detailed review of the system, and it or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 2 Assessment (RTCR)Dec. 1, 2018—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 5 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), 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. Fluoride and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Saco Pines’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 Jan. 27, 2015 to Jan. 23, 2018.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Gorham Wastewater Treatment Facility Laboratory

    Gorham, NH · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 466-3104

  • Laconia Water Works Laboratory

    Lakeport, NH · about 43 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 524-1096

  • Nova Analytic Labs

    Portland, ME · about 49 miles

    Certified for PFAS

    (207) 466-4661

All 63 certified labs for New Hampshire

Sources

PWSID NH0512180. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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