Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA1090915

Owowcow Creamery

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateOttsville, Pennsylvania
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 2016: 9 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 5 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-14.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test1 open
2Notice 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

2005201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 111% treatment lapse · 156% missed or late test · 522% notice or report · 2

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-04-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2016-09-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2016-06-27E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOttsville
EPA ZIP on file18942

Areas served

  • Bucks County

Reading this record

Owowcow Creamery is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Ottsville, 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.