Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3061151

Inn at Bally Spring Farm

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBarto, 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 2005: 17 violations. 1 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-06-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
9Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 67% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 42006 · Notice or report: 42006 · Notice or report: 42006 · Notice or report: 420102014 · Over the limit: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 141% missed or late test · 753% notice or report · 9

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2017-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2021-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  10. 2015-10-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2014-10-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2014-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2006-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2006-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2006-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2006-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2005-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBarto
EPA ZIP on file19504

Areas served

  • Berks County

Reading this record

Inn at Bally Spring Farm is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Barto, 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.