Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2350516

Little Acres Learning Academy

Serves 45 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateCovington Township, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2017: 10 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
7Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 52% 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

2005201020152017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% over the limit · 110% treatment lapse · 170% missed or late test · 710% notice or report · 1

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (2)

  1. 2017-08-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2017-07-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2017-08-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2017-07-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  10. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance

System details

Population served45
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityCovington Township
EPA ZIP on file18444

Areas served

  • Lackawanna County

Reading this record

Little Acres Learning Academy is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 45 people in Covington Township, 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.