Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400434

Farmers Inn

Serves 35 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDallas, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 1979: 37 violations. 5 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 27 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-11.

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

5Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
27Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 84% 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

1979 · Missed or late test: 21979 · Missed or late test: 21980 · Missed or late test: 41980 · Missed or late test: 41980 · Missed or late test: 41980 · Missed or late test: 419801981 · Missed or late test: 31981 · Missed or late test: 31981 · Missed or late test: 31982 · Over the limit: 11982 · Missed or late test: 11983 · Missed or late test: 31983 · Missed or late test: 31983 · Missed or late test: 31984 · Missed or late test: 119851986 · Missed or late test: 11989 · Over the limit: 11989 · Missed or late test: 11990 · Over the limit: 21990 · Over the limit: 219901991 · Over the limit: 11991 · Missed or late test: 1199520002005 · Notice or report: 1200520102015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 220152020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% over the limit · 55% treatment lapse · 273% missed or late test · 278% notice or report · 3

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-11Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2020-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2020-04-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2005-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 1991-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 24.50 System inactive
  17. 1991-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  18. 1990-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 38.00 System inactive
  19. 1990-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 10.00 System inactive
  20. 1989-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 80.00 System inactive
  21. 1989-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  22. 1986-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationSystem inactive
  23. 1984-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  24. 1983-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  25. 1983-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 1983-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  2. 1982-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)MCL, Averagemeasured 4.00 · limit 1.00 System inactive
  3. 1982-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  4. 1981-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  5. 1981-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  6. 1981-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  7. 1980-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  8. 1980-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  9. 1980-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  10. 1980-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  11. 1979-12-24NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  12. 1979-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served35
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDallas
EPA ZIP on file18612

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Farmers Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 35 people in Dallas, 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.