Community Water System · PWSID PA2580042

Elk Meadows

Serves 96 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateUnion Dale, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 20 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 10 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-11.

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
10Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 71% 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: 1200520102013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% treatment lapse · 250% missed or late test · 1040% 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. 2024-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-03Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2022-10-03Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-11-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2013-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served96
Service connections35
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityUnion Dale
EPA ZIP on file18470

Areas served

  • Susquehanna County

Reading this record

Elk Meadows is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 96 people in Union Dale, 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.