Community Water System · PWSID PA4070009

Bellwood Boro Auth

Serves 3,162 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentBellwood, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2005: 8 violations. 8 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2019-10-01.

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
8Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 45% 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

2005 · Missed or late test: 1200520102014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 8

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2016-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2014-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2014-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2005-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served3,162
Service connections1,426
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBellwood
EPA ZIP on file16617

Areas served

  • Blair County

Reading this record

Bellwood Boro Auth is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 3,162 people in Bellwood, 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.