Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA4050467

Breezewood Shell Sac#7

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBedford, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2018: 7 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-12.

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1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 41% 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

2005201020152018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% over the limit · 114% treatment lapse · 114% missed or late test · 157% notice or report · 4

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-07-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-12-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2018-12-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2018-06-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBedford
EPA ZIP on file15522

Areas served

  • Bedford County

Reading this record

Breezewood Shell Sac#7 is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in Bedford, 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.