Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA4190901

Benton Foundry Inc

Serves 250 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBenton, Pennsylvania
1 open treatment violation.

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 2012: 30 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 28 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
28Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 62012 · Missed or late test: 62012 · Missed or late test: 62012 · Missed or late test: 62012 · Missed or late test: 62012 · Missed or late test: 620152016 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 720202021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 193% missed or late test · 283% notice or report · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2025-07-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2024-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-05-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-02-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2021-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2020-11-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-10-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2020-08-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2018-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  22. 2012-07-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2012-07-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2012-04-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2012-04-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 2 entries
  1. 2012-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2012-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served250
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBenton
EPA ZIP on file17814

Areas served

  • Columbia County

Reading this record

Benton Foundry Inc is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 250 people in Benton, 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.