Community Water System · PWSID PA5630068

Donegal Township

Serves 820 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWest Alexander, Pennsylvania
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On record since 1999: 54 violations. 4 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 31 missed or late tests · 16 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-11.

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

4Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
31Missed or late test
16Notice or report

More violations on record than 90% 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

1999 · Missed or late test: 120002004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 220052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 46% treatment lapse · 357% missed or late test · 3130% notice or report · 16

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2023-12-24Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  9. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2023-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-08-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2023-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2023-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-06-16Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  18. 2022-04-13Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  19. 2022-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  22. 2021-07-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2021-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2021-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  25. 2021-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2017-05-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  9. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2017-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  13. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2013-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2013-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2013-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  22. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  24. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served820
Service connections310
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWest Alexander
EPA ZIP on file15376

Areas served

  • Washington County

Reading this record

Donegal Township is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 820 people in West Alexander, 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.