Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400319

Butler Twp Fire Co Inc

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDrums, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2016: 5 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-06-15.

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
2Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 31% 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 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% treatment lapse · 220% missed or late test · 140% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-06-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2023-02-03Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 2021-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDrums
EPA ZIP on file18222

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Butler Twp Fire Co Inc is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Drums, 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.