Community Water System · PWSID PA2570003

Dushore Water Authority

Serves 400 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentDushore, 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: 56 violations. 51 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
51Missed or late test
5Notice or report1 open

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

200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Missed or late test: 32012 · Missed or late test: 32013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 132015 · Missed or late test: 1320152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
91% missed or late test · 519% notice or report · 5

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2016-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2022-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2021-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-03-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-01Thallium, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-01-01Beryllium, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-01-01Antimony, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2021-01-01Selenium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2021-01-01Cyanide ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2021-01-01Arsenic ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2021-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 19 entries
  1. 2017-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2016-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2015-10-01Radium-228 ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2015-10-01Radium-226 ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2015-10-01Combined Uranium ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2015-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2015-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-07-012, 3, 7, 8-Tcdd ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2015-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2014-10-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2014-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2014-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2012-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2012-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2012-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2011-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served400
Service connections409
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityDushore
EPA ZIP on file18614

Areas served

  • Sullivan County

Reading this record

Dushore Water Authority is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 400 people in Dushore, 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.