Community Water System · PWSID PA2450105

Monroe County Correctional Fac

Serves 740 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateStroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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: 26 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 19 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-11.

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 lapse
19Missed or late test
5Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 76% 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: 12005201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 273% missed or late test · 1919% notice or report · 5

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2022-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2021-04-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2021-04-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  23. 2016-06-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served740
Service connections5
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityStroudsburg
EPA ZIP on file18360

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

Monroe County Correctional Fac is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 740 people in Stroudsburg, 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.