Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3480366

Bushkill Twp Fire Co

Serves 125 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNazareth, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2016: 4 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-01-23.

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
0Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 26% 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

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 175% notice or report · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-01-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-12-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2020-12-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served125
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNazareth
EPA ZIP on file18064

Areas served

  • Northampton County

Reading this record

Bushkill Twp Fire Co is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 125 people in Nazareth, 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.