Community Water System · PWSID PA3540036

Deer Lake Citizens Assoc

Serves 380 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateOrwigsburg, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 24 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 8 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-13.

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
4Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
12Notice or report

More violations on record than 75% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Treatment lapse: 12007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Treatment lapse: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% treatment lapse · 433% missed or late test · 850% notice or report · 12

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

55.2 ppb
17.1 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.7 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-06-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Lasso ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2016-08-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2013-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  16. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2007-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2007-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  21. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served380
Service connections181
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOrwigsburg
EPA ZIP on file17961

Areas served

  • Schuylkill County

Reading this record

Deer Lake Citizens Assoc is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 380 people in Orwigsburg, 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.