Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7671350

Penn Grove Retreat

Serves 326 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateHanover, 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 2010: 63 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 49 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

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

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
49Missed or late test
11Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 92% 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

20052010 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 620152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32019 · Notice or report: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · Missed or late test: 92024 · 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.
2% over the limit · 13% treatment lapse · 278% missed or late test · 4917% notice or report · 11

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2014-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-08-26Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2024-08-26Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2022-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 30 entries
  1. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2020-12-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2020-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2020-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2017-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  24. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 2015-01-01Nitrite ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2015-01-01Nitrate ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2014-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  28. 2013-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2013-07-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  30. 2010-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served326
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityHanover
EPA ZIP on file17331

Areas served

  • York County

Reading this record

Penn Grove Retreat is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 326 people in Hanover, 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.