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Triform Stewardship 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
25 people
Connections
1
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Livingston (T), NY
County
Columbia
Owner
Private

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded, and 2 more are above the health goal. The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5), above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and nitrate: New York’s yearly summaries per water system, 2020 to 2024.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the limit’s level, no violation

62.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 62.5 ppb, in 2024, above EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.65ppb

Highest yearly average, 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.65 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 0.7 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.51ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.51 ppb, in 2020: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

55.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 55.6 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.6ppm

Highest sample; found in 4 of 4

2024 average: 0.49 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.6 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it averaged 0.49 ppm.

What handles it

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

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.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium

    For: Arsenic, Uranium

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

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.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 32 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and nitrate results here are New York’s own yearly summaries from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Triform Stewardship Community’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has 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.

Testing your own tap

Triform Stewardship 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.

No lab New York certifies is within 75 miles of the area Triform Stewardship Community serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

All 161 certified labs for New York

Sources

PWSID NY1030308. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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