Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2580337

Crystal Pines

Serves 40 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateClifford Township, 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 2011: 18 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 12 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-11-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
12Missed or late test
4Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 68% 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

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Missed or late test: 52016 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 16% treatment lapse · 167% missed or late test · 1222% notice or report · 4

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2019-10-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-10-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2019-09-16Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2019-09-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  10. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-01-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 2012-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2011-06-07E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served40
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityClifford Township
EPA ZIP on file18407

Areas served

  • Susquehanna County

Reading this record

Crystal Pines is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 40 people in Clifford Township, 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.