Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7280961

Mercersburg Sportsman Assn

Serves 275 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMercersburg, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2016: 31 violations. 6 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-05-13.

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6Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
9Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

2005201020152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42021 · Notice or report: 42022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
19% over the limit · 63% treatment lapse · 148% missed or late test · 1529% notice or report · 9

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-05-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-05-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.20 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2021-10-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 10.80 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2021-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.60 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-12-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  19. 2019-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2018-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2018-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2017-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2016-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 2016-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  3. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.70 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served275
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMercersburg
EPA ZIP on file17236

Areas served

  • Franklin County

Reading this record

Mercersburg Sportsman Assn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 275 people in Mercersburg, 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.