Community Water System · PWSID PA4140078

Penn Twp Water Dist

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCoburn, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2017: 30 violations. 29 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2022-09-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
29Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

2005201020152017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212021 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
97% missed or late test · 293% 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. 2022-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2021-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2021-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2021-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2021-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2021-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2018-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
Show the other 5 entries
  1. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections93
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCoburn
EPA ZIP on file16832

Areas served

  • Centre County

Reading this record

Penn Twp Water Dist is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in Coburn, 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.