Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd, NY Water Quality
What's in Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd's water?
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 10,000, over 3,280 connections.
How this compares nationally
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd has 17 violations on record in total, 5 of them health-based - ranking it 3,622th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 72th percentile nationally.
Against the NY average
NY's 452 covered systems average 4.3 health-based violations each; Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd carries 5, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
The concern categories on record
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd's record does not cover
This is what Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 17 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.