Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA9996585

A Clear Alternative

Serves 25 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: PrivatePennsauken, New Jersey
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On record since 2016: 9 violations. 5 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-09-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 70% of active water systems in New Jersey. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
56% missed or late test · 544% notice or report · 4

Across New Jersey, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPennsauken
EPA ZIP on file08110

Areas served

    Reading this record

    A Clear Alternative is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 25 people in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

    Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

    Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.