Community Water System · PWSID PA6430049

Buhl Community Water Company

Serves 2,227 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMercer, Pennsylvania
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater 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 2004: 11 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 6 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-30.

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 lapse1 open
6Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 55% 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 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% treatment lapse · 155% missed or late test · 636% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-30Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-30Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  2. 2024-12-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-03-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2016-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,227
Service connections71
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMercer
EPA ZIP on file16137

Areas served

  • Mercer County

Reading this record

Buhl Community Water Company is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,227 people in Mercer, 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.