Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA5020947

Pittsburgh Intl Airport

Serves 26,915 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentPittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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On record since 2016: 10 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 7 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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

1Over the limit

1Treatment lapse

7Missed or late test

1Notice or report

More violations on record than 52% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

10% over the limit · 110% treatment lapse · 170% missed or late test · 710% notice or report · 1

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

31.3 ppb

7.3 ppb

6.6 ppb

5.3 ppb

4.9 ppb

Every violation on record

2025-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2025-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
2024-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2024-05-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/LBack in compliance
2020-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served	26,915
Service connections	50
Water source	Surface Water Purchased
System type	Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Pittsburgh
EPA ZIP on file	15231

Areas served

Allegheny County

Reading this record

Pittsburgh Intl Airport is a non-transient non-community that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 26,915 people in Pittsburgh, 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.