Community Water System · PWSID PA5260009

Muni Auth of Washington Twp

Serves 9,100 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBelle Vernon, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2007: 44 violations. 4 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 25 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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

4Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
25Missed or late test
12Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Over the limit: 32016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62016 · Notice or report: 62017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 320202022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142023 · Missed or late test: 142024 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 47% treatment lapse · 357% missed or late test · 2527% notice or report · 12

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.7 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2023-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2023-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2023-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-12-03Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  21. 2018-10-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2018-08-26Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2RPTBack in compliance
  23. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-08-10Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2016-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2016-05-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2016-04-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  7. 2016-04-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  9. 2016-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM) ×2MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  14. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  15. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served9,100
Service connections3,353
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBelle Vernon
EPA ZIP on file15012

Areas served

  • Fayette County

Reading this record

Muni Auth of Washington Twp is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 9,100 people in Belle Vernon, 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.