Community Water System · PWSID PA5020006

Brackenridge Boro Water Dept

Serves 3,700 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBrackenridge, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2017: 25 violations. 2 over the limit · 22 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
22Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 76% 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

2005201020152017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 288% missed or late test · 224% notice or report · 1

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.2 ppb
2.7 ppb
2.3 ppb
1.7 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2020-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2020-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-05-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2019-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  22. 2017-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served3,700
Service connections1,363
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBrackenridge
EPA ZIP on file15014

Areas served

  • Allegheny County

Reading this record

Brackenridge Boro Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 3,700 people in Brackenridge, 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.