Community Water System · PWSID PA3130044

Jim Thorpe Borough Water West

Serves 2,274 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentJim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2006: 23 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
7Notice or report

More violations on record than 74% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 165% missed or late test · 1530% notice or report · 7

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-10-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  8. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2013-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2013-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2013-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2012-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,274
Service connections785
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityJim Thorpe
EPA ZIP on file18229

Areas served

  • Carbon County

Reading this record

Jim Thorpe Borough Water West is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,274 people in Jim Thorpe, 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.