Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7210341

North Dickinson Elem Sch

Serves 253 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCarlisle, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2005: 20 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 15 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 71% 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 · Missed or late test: 1200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
10% treatment lapse · 275% missed or late test · 1515% notice or report · 3

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2013-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2024-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2020-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2016-12-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2016-11-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2013-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  19. 2012-06-25E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  20. 2005-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served253
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCarlisle
EPA ZIP on file17013

Areas served

  • Cumberland County

Reading this record

North Dickinson Elem Sch is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 253 people in Carlisle, 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.