Community Water System · PWSID PA7360015

Conestoga Hills Community

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGap, 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 2004: 12 violations. 4 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-08-01.

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
4Missed or late test
8Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 57% 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: 22004 · Notice or report: 2200520102012 · Notice or report: 42012 · Notice or report: 42012 · Notice or report: 42012 · Notice or report: 42013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
33% missed or late test · 467% 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. 2012-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2013-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2013-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2012-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2012-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2012-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections73
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGap
EPA ZIP on file17527

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Conestoga Hills Community is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Gap, 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.