Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7360981

Little Country Store

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateRonks, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2019: 2 violations. 2 over the limit. Most recent began 2019-10-01.

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

2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 13% 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

2005201020152019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.70 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2019-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 14.90 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityRonks
EPA ZIP on file17572

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Little Country Store is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Ronks, 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.