Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2350829

Bills Plaza

Serves 501 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCovington Twp, Pennsylvania
4 open treatment violations.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform 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 2021: 78 violations. 1 over the limit · 7 treatment lapses · 46 missed or late tests · 24 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-10-13.

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

1Over the limit
7Treatment lapse4 open
46Missed or late test2 open
24Notice or report14 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

20052010201520202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Missed or late test: 302024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 172025 · Notice or report: 172025 · Notice or report: 172025 · Notice or report: 172025 · Notice or report: 172025 · Notice or report: 172025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% over the limit · 19% treatment lapse · 759% missed or late test · 4631% notice or report · 24

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (20)

  1. 2025-10-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-10-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  4. 2025-09-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  6. 2025-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2025-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  9. 2025-01-11Public Notice ×10PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2025-01-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  11. 2024-12-28Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-10-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-10-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  4. 2025-09-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2025-09-02Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  7. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2025-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2025-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  11. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2025-01-11Public Notice ×10PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2025-01-04E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  14. 2024-12-28Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  15. 2024-12-28Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-05-29E. Coli ×3Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 36 entries
  1. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01Nitrite ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-01Nitrate ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2023-01-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2023-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2023-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2023-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2023-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2023-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2022-11-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2022-10-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2022-10-10Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  31. 2022-10-10Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  32. 2022-09-05Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  33. 2022-09-05Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  34. 2021-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  35. 2021-09-07Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  36. 2021-09-07Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance

System details

Population served501
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCovington Twp
EPA ZIP on file18444

Areas served

  • Lackawanna County

Reading this record

Bills Plaza is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 501 people in Covington Twp, 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.