Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7011036

Orvis Hill Country

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateFairfield, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2019: 9 violations. 8 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2021-10-11.

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
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 49% 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

2005201020152019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
89% missed or late test · 811% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections15
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityFairfield
EPA ZIP on file17320

Areas served

  • Adams County

Reading this record

Orvis Hill Country is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Fairfield, 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.