Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7381027

Colebrook Tavern

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLebanon, Pennsylvania
Nothing open right now.

On record since 1980: 22 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2017-01-01.

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2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 73% 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

1980 · Missed or late test: 119801981 · Missed or late test: 21981 · Missed or late test: 21982 · Missed or late test: 21982 · Missed or late test: 21983 · Over the limit: 11983 · Missed or late test: 41983 · Missed or late test: 41983 · Missed or late test: 41983 · Missed or late test: 41984 · Missed or late test: 21984 · Missed or late test: 21985 · Missed or late test: 31985 · Missed or late test: 31985 · Missed or late test: 319851986 · Over the limit: 11986 · Missed or late test: 11990199520002005201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 25% treatment lapse · 177% missed or late test · 179% notice or report · 2

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate1986-04-03 · Nitrate: measured 320.00 vs limit 10.00 (32.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2017-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2016-10-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2016-08-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  6. 1986-12-24NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  7. 1986-04-03NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 320.00 · limit 10.00 System inactive
  8. 1985-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  9. 1985-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  10. 1985-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  11. 1984-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  12. 1984-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  13. 1983-12-24NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  14. 1983-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  15. 1983-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  16. 1983-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 1.80 · limit 1.00 System inactive
  17. 1983-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  18. 1982-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  19. 1982-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  20. 1981-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  21. 1981-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  22. 1980-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLebanon
EPA ZIP on file17042

Areas served

  • Lebanon County

Reading this record

Colebrook Tavern is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Lebanon, 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.