Community Water System · PWSID PA7360138

Pequea Water Coop Assn

Serves 121 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePequea, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2002: 17 violations. 2 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-02-01.

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2Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
11Notice or report

More violations on record than 67% 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

2002 · Missed or late test: 12003 · Over the limit: 22003 · Over the limit: 22003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 220052006 · Notice or report: 22006 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22008 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 1201520202021 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 224% missed or late test · 465% notice or report · 11

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2021-12-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2009-01-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2009-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2008-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2008-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2006-07-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2003-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 12.75 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2003-01-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance
  16. 2003-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.70 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2002-10-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationBack in compliance

System details

Population served121
Service connections53
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPequea
EPA ZIP on file17565

Areas served

  • Lancaster County

Reading this record

Pequea Water Coop Assn is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 121 people in Pequea, 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.