Community Water System · PWSID PA7360039

Fairmount Home

Serves 483 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateEphrata, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2017: 23 violations. 1 over the limit · 22 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2019-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
22Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 2020202025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 196% missed or late test · 22

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.88 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2018-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served483
Service connections40
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityEphrata
EPA ZIP on file17522

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Fairmount Home is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 483 people in Ephrata, 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.