Community Water System · PWSID PA4110009

Ebensburg Boro Muni Auth

Serves 8,500 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentEbensburg, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 54 violations. 23 over the limit · 10 missed or late tests · 21 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-05-11.

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

23Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
21Notice 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

2003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Missed or late test: 120052008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Over the limit: 22015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Over the limit: 62016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 72016 · Notice or report: 72016 · Notice or report: 72016 · Notice or report: 72017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Notice or report: 42020 · Notice or report: 420202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · 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.
43% over the limit · 2319% missed or late test · 1039% notice or report · 21

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.1 ppb
1.1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0760 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0990 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2022-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1090 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1070 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0860 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2020-11-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0770 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2020-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0950 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2020-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2020-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1010 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2019-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 24 entries
  1. 2017-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2017-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2016-08-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  9. 2016-06-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-05-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  12. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  13. 2016-02-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  16. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  17. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  18. 2015-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2008-08-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2008-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2005-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  23. 2004-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2003-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served8,500
Service connections2,209
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityEbensburg
EPA ZIP on file15931

Areas served

  • Cambria County

Reading this record

Ebensburg Boro Muni Auth is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 8,500 people in Ebensburg, 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.