Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA1150211

Modern Mushroom Farms

Serves 400 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAvondale, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 78 violations. 10 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 50 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-03-11.

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

10Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
50Missed or late test
17Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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: 2200520102014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402016 · Missed or late test: 402017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 101% treatment lapse · 164% missed or late test · 5022% notice or report · 17

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.

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-03-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-02-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 12.80 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 10.90 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2018-11-17Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  16. 2018-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.45 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2018-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.90 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2018-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 14.30 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2018-01-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2017-10-12Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2017-10-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  23. 2017-10-01Nitrate ×2MCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.50 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01Nitrate ×2MCL, Averagemeasured 12.60 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 27 entries
  1. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2016-01-01Styrene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2016-01-01Ethylbenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2016-01-01Toluene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2016-01-01Benzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01Chlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-01Tetrachloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2016-01-011,1,2-Trichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2016-01-01Trichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-011,2-Dichloropropane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01Carbon tetrachloride ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-011,1,1-Trichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-011,2-Dichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-011,1-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01p-Dichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01o-Dichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01Dichloromethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2016-01-01Xylenes, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2016-01-01cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2016-01-011,2,4-Trichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2015-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.70 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2015-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2014-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  27. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served400
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAvondale
EPA ZIP on file19311

Areas served

  • Chester County

Reading this record

Modern Mushroom Farms is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 400 people in Avondale, 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.