Community Water System · PWSID PA1150002

Artesian Water PA Inc

Serves 95 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Public/PrivateNewark, Delaware
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2015: 12 violations. 12 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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
12Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Delaware. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 12

Across Delaware, 43% of violations are missed or late tests and 29% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served95
Service connections38
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityNewark
EPA ZIP on file19702

Areas served

  • Chester County

Reading this record

Artesian Water PA Inc is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 95 people in Newark, Delaware. 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.