Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400423

Misericordia University

Serves 2,400 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateDallas, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Groundwater 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 2012: 142 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 41 missed or late tests · 99 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-11.

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 lapse1 open
41Missed or late test1 open
99Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 97% 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

200520102012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 902012 · Notice or report: 9020152019 · Missed or late test: 720202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 182024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 62025 · Missed or late test: 102025 · Missed or late test: 102025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 8 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 229% missed or late test · 4170% notice or report · 99

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

16.3 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

3 mg/L
2.2 mg/L

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-07-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  4. 2024-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2023-07-05Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-04-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-04-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-10-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2024-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2024-08-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2024-08-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2024-07-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  13. 2024-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2023-10-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2023-07-05Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  19. 2023-07-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2023-04-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2023-04-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2023-04-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 9 entries
  1. 2023-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-01Bhc-Gamma ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01Nitrite ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01Nitrate ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2012-04-11Public Notice ×90PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,400
Service connections7
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityDallas
EPA ZIP on file18612

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Misericordia University is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,400 people in Dallas, 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.