Community Water System · PWSID PA5630044

Ellsworth Boro Water Dept

Serves 1,250 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentEllsworth, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 1999: 57 violations. 7 over the limit · 29 missed or late tests · 21 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-10.

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

7Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
29Missed or late test
21Notice or report4 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

1999 · Missed or late test: 120002004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22007 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42013 · Notice or report: 42015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42016 · Notice or report: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Missed or late test: 1020202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Over the limit: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 751% missed or late test · 2937% notice or report · 21

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

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2018-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1060 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1080 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1090 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2023-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-07-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2020-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2020-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2020-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2020-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2020-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2019-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2018-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2017-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  10. 2016-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  13. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  15. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-01-21Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack 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. 2013-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2013-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2012-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2012-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2007-10-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  26. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  27. 2006-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  29. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,250
Service connections541
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityEllsworth
EPA ZIP on file15331

Areas served

  • Washington County

Reading this record

Ellsworth Boro Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,250 people in Ellsworth, 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.