Community Water System · PWSID PA2520033

Hemlock Farms (Main)

Serves 8,321 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLords Valley, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 39 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 29 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-02-01.

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

1Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
29Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Missed or late test: 152023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · 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.
3% over the limit · 18% treatment lapse · 374% missed or late test · 2915% notice or report · 6

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

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Every violation on record

  1. 2024-02-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×5Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-10-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2023-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2023-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2020-11-17Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  23. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2020-10-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2020-03-24Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
Show the other 10 entries
  1. 2020-03-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-02-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  4. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  10. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served8,321
Service connections3,304
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLords Valley
EPA ZIP on file18428

Areas served

  • Pike County

Reading this record

Hemlock Farms (Main) is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 8,321 people in Lords Valley, 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.