Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3060347

Gov Mifflin Brecknock Elem Sch

Serves 480 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateShillington, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
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 2019: 18 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-11.

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
1Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 68% 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

2005201020152019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Missed or late test: 132024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 183% missed or late test · 1511% notice or report · 2

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

290.5 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.2 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served480
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityShillington
EPA ZIP on file19607

Areas served

  • Berks County

Reading this record

Gov Mifflin Brecknock Elem Sch is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 480 people in Shillington, 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.