Community Water System · PWSID PA1090157

Plumstead Twp Summer Hill Mead

Serves 1,284 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentPipersville, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 44 violations. 3 over the limit · 35 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
35Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 120102013 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202019 · Missed or late test: 202020 · Missed or late test: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 380% missed or late test · 3514% notice or report · 6

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2019-04-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-04-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-04-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-04-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-04-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-04-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-04-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-04-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-04-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-04-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 19 entries
  1. 2019-04-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-04-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2019-04-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-04-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-04-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-04-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-04-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-04-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-04-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2018-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2018-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2018-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 23.25 PCI/LBack in compliance
  13. 2018-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 21.87 PCI/LBack in compliance
  15. 2017-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 22.60 PCI/LBack in compliance
  16. 2017-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,284
Service connections382
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPipersville
EPA ZIP on file18947

Areas served

  • Bucks County

Reading this record

Plumstead Twp Summer Hill Mead is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,284 people in Pipersville, 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.