Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA4410803

Crippled Bear Inn

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWilliamsport, Pennsylvania
3 open treatment violations.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2016: 25 violations. 6 treatment lapses · 4 missed or late tests · 15 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-11.

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
6Treatment lapse3 open
4Missed or late test
15Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 76% 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

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 420202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
24% treatment lapse · 616% missed or late test · 460% notice or report · 15

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (6)

  1. 2024-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-08-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  3. 2023-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2023-10-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  6. 2023-09-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-08-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-08-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  6. 2024-08-23Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2023-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2023-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2023-10-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  10. 2023-10-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2023-09-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  12. 2023-09-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2021-09-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-08-08Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  15. 2021-08-08Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  16. 2020-10-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2020-09-07Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  18. 2020-09-07Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  19. 2020-08-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2020-07-19Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  21. 2020-07-19Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  25. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWilliamsport
EPA ZIP on file17701

Areas served

  • Lycoming County

Reading this record

Crippled Bear Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Williamsport, 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.