Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2451029

Camp Acahela Ranger House

Serves 250 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateBlakeslee, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2007: 22 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 7 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-06-11.

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
4Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
11Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 73% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 42018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 62018 · Notice or report: 62018 · Notice or report: 62018 · Notice or report: 62018 · Notice or report: 62018 · Notice or report: 62019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
18% treatment lapse · 432% missed or late test · 750% notice or report · 11

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2018-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2017-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2019-02-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-02-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2018-12-29Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2018-12-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2018-12-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2018-12-23Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2018-12-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2018-11-25E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-11-17Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  14. 2018-11-17Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  15. 2018-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2018-10-03Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  17. 2018-10-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  18. 2017-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2007-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served250
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityBlakeslee
EPA ZIP on file18610

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

Camp Acahela Ranger House is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 250 people in Blakeslee, 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.