Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400461

Als Quick Stop #9

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDrums, Pennsylvania
2 open treatment violations.

Open for: Groundwater Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2013: 12 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 4 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-15.

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
3Treatment lapse2 open
4Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 57% of active water systems in Pennsylvania. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 333% missed or late test · 442% notice or report · 5

Across Pennsylvania, 71% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2023-01-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2022-10-08Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2022-11-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-16Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2022-10-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2022-10-08Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  6. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  11. 2014-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2013-10-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDrums
EPA ZIP on file18222

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Als Quick Stop #9 is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Drums, Pennsylvania. 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.