Community Water System · PWSID PA3130026

Nesquehoning Boro Water Auth

Serves 2,850 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentNesquehoning, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2005: 74 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 58 missed or late tests · 15 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
58Missed or late test
15Notice or report

More violations on record than 93% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 178% missed or late test · 5820% notice or report · 15

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

1.6 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2021-10-01Radium-228 ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-10-01Radium-226 ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2021-10-01Combined Uranium ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 34 entries
  1. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01Thallium, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-01-01Beryllium, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-01-01Antimony, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-01Selenium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01Nickel ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01Mercury ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01Fluoride ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01Cyanide ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-01Chromium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-01-01Cadmium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01Barium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-01-01Arsenic ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2019-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2019-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2019-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2019-05-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  26. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  27. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  29. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  30. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  31. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  32. 2008-04-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  33. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  34. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,850
Service connections1,232
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNesquehoning
EPA ZIP on file18240

Areas served

  • Carbon County

Reading this record

Nesquehoning Boro Water Auth is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,850 people in Nesquehoning, 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.