Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7360801

Old Barn Creamery

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHoltwood, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2023: 21 violations. 8 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 4 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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8Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
7Notice or report

More violations on record than 72% 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

20052010201520202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Over the limit: 42025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
38% over the limit · 810% treatment lapse · 219% missed or late test · 433% notice or report · 7

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 12.18 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2025-06-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2025-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2025-05-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2025-04-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2025-04-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2025-04-07E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2025-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.38 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2025-03-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2025-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2025-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.79 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2024-10-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 12.04 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2024-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2024-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2024-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 12.44 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 12.59 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2023-10-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2023-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.54 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHoltwood
EPA ZIP on file17532

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Old Barn Creamery is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Holtwood, 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.