Community Water System · PWSID PA3540049

Plum Creek Municipal Auth

Serves 2,500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentAuburn, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2009: 103 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 91 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-08-01.

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1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
91Missed or late test
9Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

20052009 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 420102015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 72016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 802020 · Missed or late test: 8020202022 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square ≈ 7 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
<1% over the limit · 12% treatment lapse · 288% missed or late test · 919% notice or report · 9

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-08-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-01-01Styrene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01Ethylbenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01Toluene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Benzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01Chlorobenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Tetrachloroethylene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-011,1,2-Trichloroethane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Trichloroethylene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-011,2-Dichloropropane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Carbon tetrachloride ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-011,1,1-Trichloroethane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-011,2-Dichloroethane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-011,1-Dichloroethylene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01p-Dichlorobenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01o-Dichlorobenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2020-01-01Dichloromethane ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2020-01-01Xylenes, Total ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-011,2,4-Trichlorobenzene ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  23. 2017-11-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  5. 2016-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2015-11-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2010-01-11Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2009-10-11Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,500
Service connections1,249
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAuburn
EPA ZIP on file17922

Areas served

  • Schuylkill County

Reading this record

Plum Creek Municipal Auth is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,500 people in Auburn, 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.