Community Water System · PWSID PA6250061

North East Borough Water Dept

Serves 4,601 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentNorth East, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2004: 36 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 30 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
30Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 12005201020152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 112017 · Missed or late test: 1120202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Missed or late test: 102023 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 383% missed or late test · 308% notice or report · 3

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.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-10-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2023-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2023-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-11-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2022-10-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  16. 2022-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2022-07-01Carbon, TotalTreatment Technique Precursor RemovalBack in compliance
  18. 2022-07-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2022-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  20. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2021-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2017-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 11 entries
  1. 2017-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2017-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2017-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2005-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,601
Service connections1,732
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNorth East
EPA ZIP on file16428

Areas served

  • Erie County

Reading this record

North East Borough Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 4,601 people in North East, 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.