Community Water System · PWSID PA4190014

Benton Municipal Water Auth

Serves 1,333 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: Local GovernmentBenton, Pennsylvania
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 2006: 47 violations. 40 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-11-01.

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
40Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 88% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
85% missed or late test · 4015% notice or report · 7

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-04-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-04-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-04-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-04-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-04-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-04-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-04-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-04-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2020-07-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-07-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-07-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-07-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-07-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2020-07-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2020-07-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-07-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
Show the other 22 entries
  1. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2018-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2015-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  17. 2015-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,333
Service connections494
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBenton
EPA ZIP on file17814

Areas served

  • Columbia County

Reading this record

Benton Municipal Water Auth is a community water system that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 1,333 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.