Wolfeboro Water and Sewer

Water Quality Snapshot: Wolfeboro Water and Sewer

Wolfeboro Water and Sewer is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 6,000 residents in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire (Carroll County) through 2,400 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 86 total violations for this system , of which 56 (65%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 20 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2009.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is TTHM, recorded in 37 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across New Hampshire, EPA tracks 2,453 public water systems serving 1,242,123 people, with 155,970 cumulative violations and 29,649 health-based violations on record. About 90% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 63.6 violations. Statewide, 23 of 51 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (45.1%).

Wolfeboro Water and Sewer's 86 violations sit above the New Hampshire average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.