Community Water System · PWSID PA2450020

Buck Hill Falls Water Co

Serves 876 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateBuck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2004: 19 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 14 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
4Notice 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

2004 · Notice or report: 1200520102013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 174% missed or late test · 1421% 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. 2023-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2021-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served876
Service connections342
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBuck Hill Falls
EPA ZIP on file18323

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

Buck Hill Falls Water Co is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 876 people in Buck Hill Falls, 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.