Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2451226

Faith Lutheran Church

Serves 110 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateBlakeslee, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2016: 13 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2019-07-11.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
8Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 59% 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

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 115% treatment lapse · 215% missed or late test · 262% notice or report · 8

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2018-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2018-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2018-07-22Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-22Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2018-07-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2018-06-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  8. 2018-05-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2018-04-16Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2018-04-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2018-03-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served110
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityBlakeslee
EPA ZIP on file18610

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

Faith Lutheran Church is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 110 people in Blakeslee, 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.