Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3060817

Hopewell Furnace Nhs

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalElverson, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2016: 9 violations. 8 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 49% 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 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
89% missed or late test · 811% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections6
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityElverson
EPA ZIP on file19520

Areas served

  • Berks County

Reading this record

Hopewell Furnace Nhs is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Elverson, 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.