Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7360617

Darling Ingredients Inc

Serves 80 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEast Earl, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2019: 8 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 1 missed or late test · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-04-01.

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4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 45% 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

2005201020152019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 320202021 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 413% treatment lapse · 113% missed or late test · 125% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.05 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2020-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.40 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 10.55 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.60 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2019-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2019-02-05Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2019-02-05Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served80
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEast Earl
EPA ZIP on file17519

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Darling Ingredients Inc is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 80 people in East Earl, 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.