Community Water System · PWSID PA2350062

Finch Hill Water Co

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateGreenfield Township, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 33 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 2004: 97 violations. 4 over the limit · 29 missed or late tests · 64 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-10-01.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
29Missed or late test1 open
64Notice or report32 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Over the limit: 22007 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 42008 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 52009 · Notice or report: 52010 · Notice or report: 52010 · Notice or report: 520102011 · Notice or report: 52011 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 312013 · Notice or report: 3120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222022 · Missed or late test: 222023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 430% missed or late test · 2966% notice or report · 64

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

Open now (33)

  1. 2025-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2013-07-11Public Notice ×30PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2008-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2007-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2025-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2023-04-01ArsenicMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 43 entries
  1. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2020-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  11. 2013-07-11Public Notice ×30PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2012-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2012-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2012-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2011-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2011-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2011-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2011-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2010-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2010-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2010-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2010-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2009-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2009-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  29. 2009-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2009-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2008-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2008-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  34. 2008-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  35. 2007-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  36. 2007-10-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0110 MG/LBack in compliance
  37. 2007-07-01ArsenicMCL, Averagemeasured 0.0120 MG/LBack in compliance
  38. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  39. 2007-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  41. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  42. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  43. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections38
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityGreenfield Township
EPA ZIP on file18407

Areas served

  • Lackawanna County

Reading this record

Finch Hill Water Co is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Greenfield Township, 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.