Community Water System · PWSID PA6200003

Cambridge Area Joint Auth

Serves 225 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentCambridge Springs, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2008: 16 violations. 4 over the limit · 10 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 65% 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

20052008 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 463% missed or late test · 1013% 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. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served225
Service connections84
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCambridge Springs
EPA ZIP on file16403

Areas served

  • Crawford County

Reading this record

Cambridge Area Joint Auth is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 225 people in Cambridge Springs, 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.