Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3540345

New England Fire Co

Serves 65 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateTamaqua, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2017: 11 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-02-29.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 55% 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

2005201020152017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
9% over the limit · 118% treatment lapse · 227% missed or late test · 345% notice or report · 5

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-02-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-21Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2021-05-22Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2021-05-22Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2021-04-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  10. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance

System details

Population served65
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityTamaqua
EPA ZIP on file18252

Areas served

  • Schuylkill County

Reading this record

New England Fire Co is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 65 people in Tamaqua, 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.