Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2640910

Claws N Paws Wild Animal Park

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLake Ariel, 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 2008: 28 violations. 1 over the limit · 7 treatment lapses · 12 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-05-25.

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

1Over the limit
7Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
8Notice 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

20052008 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · 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 · 125% treatment lapse · 743% missed or late test · 1229% notice or report · 8

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2018-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-05-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-05-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2019-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2019-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-10-27Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2018-10-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  15. 2018-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2017-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2016-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2016-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2016-07-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  24. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2015-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2015-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2008-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLake Ariel
EPA ZIP on file18436

Areas served

  • Wayne County

Reading this record

Claws N Paws Wild Animal Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Lake Ariel, 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.