Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2640483

Camp Towanda

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHonesdale, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
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On record since 2008: 18 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 11 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-16.

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 lapse
11Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% 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 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 420202022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 161% missed or late test · 1133% notice or report · 6

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-06-04Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-11Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2017-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2012-05-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2008-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections43
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHonesdale
EPA ZIP on file18431

Areas served

  • Wayne County

Reading this record

Camp Towanda is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Honesdale, 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.