Community Water System · PWSID PA2350028

Clarks Summit State Hospital

Serves 747 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateClarks Summit, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2004: 38 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 27 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
27Missed or late test
8Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 84% 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: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Missed or late test: 152024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 371% missed or late test · 2721% notice or report · 8

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

30.5 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2023-10-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2022-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2022-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
Show the other 11 entries
  1. 2019-10-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-09-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2019-09-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-03-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served747
Service connections20
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityClarks Summit
EPA ZIP on file18411

Areas served

  • Lackawanna County

Reading this record

Clarks Summit State Hospital is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 747 people in Clarks Summit, 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.