Community Water System · PWSID PA4140080

Borough of Howard

Serves 1,001 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHoward, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2015: 19 violations. 18 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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
18Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 70% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 420152016 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
95% missed or late test · 185% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,001
Service connections415
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHoward
EPA ZIP on file16841

Areas served

  • Centre County

Reading this record

Borough of Howard is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,001 people in Howard, 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.