Community Water System · PWSID PA5020082

Carson Towers

Serves 266 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivatePittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2018: 20 violations. 16 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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
16Missed or late test
4Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 71% 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

2005201020152018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 320202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
80% missed or late test · 1620% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2019-09-11Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-09-11Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  12. 2018-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served266
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPittsburgh
EPA ZIP on file15203

Areas served

  • Allegheny County

Reading this record

Carson Towers is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 266 people in Pittsburgh, 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.