Community Water System · PWSID PA4340016

Locust Grove Retirement Home

Serves 177 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMifflin, 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 2003: 39 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 28 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
28Missed or late test
9Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 85% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 272% missed or late test · 2823% 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. 2016-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-05-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2022-05-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2021-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2020-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 2019-06-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2019-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2017-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2017-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2016-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2008-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served177
Service connections15
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMifflin
EPA ZIP on file17058

Areas served

  • Juniata County

Reading this record

Locust Grove Retirement Home is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 177 people in Mifflin, 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.