Community Water System · PWSID PA2080003

Canton Borough Authority

Serves 2,050 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCanton, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2004: 32 violations. 28 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-10-11.

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
0Treatment lapse
28Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 81% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · 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.
88% missed or late test · 2813% notice or report · 4

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01Carbofuran ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Oxamyl ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Glyphosate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01Endothall ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2021-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2017-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  23. 2015-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2015-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2015-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 2 entries
  1. 2012-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,050
Service connections828
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCanton
EPA ZIP on file17724

Areas served

  • Bradford County

Reading this record

Canton Borough Authority is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,050 people in Canton, 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.