Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2580323

Harford Penn-Can Service

Serves 350 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateScranton, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 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: 47 violations. 2 over the limit · 8 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests · 26 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-11.

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

2Over the limit
8Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test1 open
26Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 88% 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 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 42017 · Notice or report: 42018 · Treatment lapse: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 142018 · Notice or report: 142018 · Notice or report: 142018 · Notice or report: 142018 · Notice or report: 142018 · Notice or report: 142018 · Notice or report: 142020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 220202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 52025 · Notice or report: 52025 · Notice or report: 52025
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 · 217% treatment lapse · 823% missed or late test · 1155% notice or report · 26

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

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-08-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2025-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2025-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2018-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2018-07-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2025-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2025-05-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2025-04-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2025-04-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2025-04-08Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2025-04-08Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2025-03-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2025-03-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2024-07-12Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2024-06-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2024-02-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2020-09-21Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2020-09-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2020-08-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-09-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2018-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  20. 2018-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2018-08-11Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2RPTBack in compliance
  22. 2018-07-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  23. 2018-07-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-07-09Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  25. 2018-07-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
Show the other 19 entries
  1. 2018-06-11E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-06-10Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2RPTBack in compliance
  3. 2018-06-06Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2RPTBack in compliance
  4. 2018-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-05-09E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2018-04-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2018-04-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2017-09-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2017-08-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2017-08-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2017-08-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  15. 2017-06-10Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2017-06-10Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  18. 2016-04-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served350
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityScranton
EPA ZIP on file18508

Areas served

  • Susquehanna County

Reading this record

Harford Penn-Can Service is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 350 people in Scranton, 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.