Community Water System · PWSID PA7360176

Christs Home for Children

Serves 31 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateParadise, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 23 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-02-01.

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1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Missed or late test: 62016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 320202022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 14% treatment lapse · 174% missed or late test · 1717% 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. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2022-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2019-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2019-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2017-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-10-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2016-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2016-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 10.92 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served31
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityParadise
EPA ZIP on file17562

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Christs Home for Children is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 31 people in Paradise, 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.