Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400901

Nelly Plaza

Serves 500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMountaintop, Pennsylvania
2 open treatment violations.

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 2016: 7 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-11.

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 lapse2 open
2Missed or late test
3Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 41% 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 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 22021 · Treatment lapse: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
29% treatment lapse · 229% missed or late test · 243% notice or report · 3

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

Open now (4)

  1. 2023-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2021-07-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2021-07-03Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2021-07-15Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  3. 2021-07-03Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyOpen
  4. 2021-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served500
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMountaintop
EPA ZIP on file18707

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Nelly Plaza is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 500 people in Mountaintop, 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.