Community Water System · PWSID PA2520061

Aqua PA Tafton Wilson Hill

Serves 80 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHonesdale, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 10 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1993: 11 violations. 10 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2017-07-01.

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
10Missed or late test10 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 55% 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

1993 · Missed or late test: 11994 · Missed or late test: 21994 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Missed or late test: 21995 · Missed or late test: 219951996 · Missed or late test: 21996 · Missed or late test: 21997 · Missed or late test: 21997 · Missed or late test: 21998 · Missed or late test: 120002005201020152017 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
91% missed or late test · 109% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (10)

  1. 1998-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  2. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  3. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  4. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  5. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  6. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  7. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  8. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  9. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  10. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 1998-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  3. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  4. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  5. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  6. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  7. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  8. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  9. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  10. 1994-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  11. 1993-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

System details

Population served80
Service connections80
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHonesdale
EPA ZIP on file18431

Areas served

  • Pike County

Reading this record

Aqua PA Tafton Wilson Hill is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 80 people in Honesdale, 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.