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Triform Camphill Community

What EPA’s and New York’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
63 people
Connections
10
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Livingston (T), NY
County
Columbia
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

12521

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and New York’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, arsenic and uranium: New York’s yearly summaries per water system, 2020 to 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Chromium (total) and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Oct. 18, 2018 to Oct. 19, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits3

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

12.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 1.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 12.2 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 24.2 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it averaged 1.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.8 ppb, in 2017.

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

6.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.0 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 9.9 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.6 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.08ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 4

2024 average: 0.02 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.08 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.02 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.1 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform results required a check of the system, and the check or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 1 Assessment (RTCR)July 1, 2021—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 75 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, arsenic and uranium results here are New York’s own yearly summaries 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. Triform Camphill Community’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; New York’s yearly summaries cover 2020 to 2024; EPA’s compliance samples are from Oct. 18, 2018 to Oct. 19, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Triform Camphill Community’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 York certifies.

The 3 labs New York certifies closest to the area Triform Camphill Community serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Capital Region Environmental Laboratory

    Rensselaer, NY · about 32 miles

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

    (518) 949-2020

  • Adirondack Environmental Services Inc.

    Albany, NY · about 34 miles

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

    (518) 434-4546

  • Aqua Check Laboratories, Inc.

    Stone Ridge, NY · about 34 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (845) 687-0420

All 161 certified labs for New York

Sources

PWSID NY1030257. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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