Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400502

Hickory Grove Campground

Serves 97 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateOld Forge, 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 2015: 26 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-11.

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
4Treatment lapse
11Missed or late test
11Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 76% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
15% treatment lapse · 442% missed or late test · 1142% notice or report · 11

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2024-06-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-05-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2022-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-05-14Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2021-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2020-05-14Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-06-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-05-14Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  19. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2016-05-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  25. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served97
Service connections39
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOld Forge
EPA ZIP on file18518

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Hickory Grove Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 97 people in Old Forge, 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.