Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2350505

Dcnr Lackawanna State Park

Serves 800 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateN Abington Township, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2011: 16 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 6 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-08-28.

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
2Treatment lapse
6Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 65% 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: 12011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 238% missed or late test · 650% notice or report · 8

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-08-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-03-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2022-03-08Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2022-02-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2018-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-11-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-12-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2016-11-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  14. 2012-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2011-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2011-07-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served800
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityN Abington Township
EPA ZIP on file18414

Areas served

  • Lackawanna County

Reading this record

Dcnr Lackawanna State Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 800 people in N Abington 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.