Community Water System · PWSID PA5630039

Auth of Boro of Charleroi

Serves 27,000 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentCharleroi, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2004: 88 violations. 11 over the limit · 26 missed or late tests · 51 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-11.

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

11Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
26Missed or late test
51Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 42005 · Notice or report: 420052006 · Notice or report: 142006 · Notice or report: 142006 · Notice or report: 142006 · Notice or report: 142006 · Notice or report: 142007 · Missed or late test: 12007 · Notice or report: 132007 · Notice or report: 132007 · Notice or report: 132007 · Notice or report: 132007 · Notice or report: 132008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 52009 · Notice or report: 520102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 52015 · Over the limit: 52015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Missed or late test: 202015 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Over the limit: 12025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 1130% missed or late test · 2658% notice or report · 51

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.5 ppb
3.2 ppb
2.5 ppb
2 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2016-05-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  14. 2016-02-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  16. 2015-11-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  18. 2015-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  20. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2015-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2015-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2015-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2015-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 51 entries
  1. 2015-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2015-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2015-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2015-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2015-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2015-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2015-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2015-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2015-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2015-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2015-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2015-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2015-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2015-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2012-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2009-10-11Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2009-08-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2008-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2008-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2007-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2007-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2007-10-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  25. 2007-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2007-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2007-06-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2007-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2007-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2007-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2007-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2007-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2007-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  34. 2006-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  35. 2006-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  36. 2006-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  37. 2006-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  38. 2006-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  39. 2006-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2006-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  41. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  42. 2006-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  43. 2006-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  44. 2006-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  45. 2006-03-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  46. 2006-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  47. 2005-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  48. 2005-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  49. 2005-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  50. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  51. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served27,000
Service connections12,305
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCharleroi
EPA ZIP on file15022

Areas served

  • Washington County

Reading this record

Auth of Boro of Charleroi is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 27,000 people in Charleroi, 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.