Community Water System · PWSID PA7010005

Fairfield Muni Auth

Serves 2,150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentFairfield, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 22 violations. 17 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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
17Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 73% 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: 12004 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 120152019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
77% missed or late test · 1723% notice or report · 5

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2021-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  19. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,150
Service connections361
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFairfield
EPA ZIP on file17320

Areas served

  • Adams County

Reading this record

Fairfield Muni Auth is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,150 people in Fairfield, 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.