Community Water System · PWSID PA1150220

North Coventry Water System

Serves 2,907 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentPottstown, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2005: 24 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 11 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-04-11.

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
11Missed or late test
11Notice or report

More violations on record than 75% 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: 12007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · 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.
8% treatment lapse · 246% missed or late test · 1146% notice or report · 11

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2021-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2021-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2021-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  14. 2017-10-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2009-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2007-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2007-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2007-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2006-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,907
Service connections974
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPottstown
EPA ZIP on file19464

Areas served

  • Chester County

Reading this record

North Coventry Water System is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 2,907 people in Pottstown, 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.