Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA6431014

Camp Wilhelm

Serves 75 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateClarks Mills, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2013: 28 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 12 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-04-15.

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

1Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
12Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 78% 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

200520102013 · Missed or late test: 22013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Treatment lapse: 32016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 111% treatment lapse · 343% missed or late test · 1243% notice or report · 12

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2014-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-15Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2RPTBack in compliance
  2. 2021-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-04-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-04-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-06-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-05Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2016-08-25Revised Total Coliform Rule ×3TTBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-18E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  18. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  20. 2014-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  21. 2013-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2013-09-17E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2013-08-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served75
Service connections75
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityClarks Mills
EPA ZIP on file16114

Areas served

  • Mercer County

Reading this record

Camp Wilhelm is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 75 people in Clarks Mills, 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.