Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2451343

Pmsd West High School

Serves 2,200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateSwiftwater, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2016: 181 violations. 3 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 145 missed or late tests · 30 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-08-24.

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

3Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
145Missed or late test
30Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 98% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 222016 · Missed or late test: 222016 · Missed or late test: 222017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Missed or late test: 902017 · Notice or report: 212017 · Notice or report: 212017 · Notice or report: 212018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Missed or late test: 202022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 10 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 32% treatment lapse · 380% missed or late test · 14517% notice or report · 30

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.

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.4 mg/L

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-08-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2018-09-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-08-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2024-07-14Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-14Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-06-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-01-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2022-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
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  1. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2021-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01Asbestos ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0610 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2019-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2019-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  15. 2018-09-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  16. 2018-08-17Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  17. 2018-08-17Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  18. 2017-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2017-07-11Public Notice ×20PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  21. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-01-01Chlordane ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-01-01Ethylene Dibromide ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2017-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2017-01-01Pentachlorophenol ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2017-01-01Benzo(a)pyrene ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2017-01-01Hexachlorobenzene ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2017-01-012, 4, 5-Tp ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2017-01-012, 4-D ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2017-01-01Heptachlor epoxide ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2017-01-01Heptachlor ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2017-01-012, 3, 7, 8-Tcdd ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2017-01-01Lasso ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2017-01-01Atrazine ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2017-01-01Carbofuran ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2017-01-01Hexachlorocyclopentadiene ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2017-01-01Dinoseb ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-01-01Picloram ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-01Simazine ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01Oxamyl ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2017-01-01Glyphosate ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2017-01-01Diquat ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-01-01Dalapon ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2017-01-01Toxaphene ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2017-01-01Methoxychlor ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2017-01-01Bhc-Gamma ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-01-01Endrin ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  53. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  54. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  55. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  56. 2016-04-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  57. 2016-04-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  58. 2016-04-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  59. 2016-04-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  60. 2016-04-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  61. 2016-04-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  62. 2016-04-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  63. 2016-04-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  64. 2016-04-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  65. 2016-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  66. 2016-04-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  67. 2016-04-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  68. 2016-04-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  69. 2016-04-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  70. 2016-04-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  71. 2016-04-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  72. 2016-04-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  73. 2016-04-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  74. 2016-04-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  75. 2016-04-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,200
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CitySwiftwater
EPA ZIP on file18370

Areas served

  • Monroe County

Reading this record

Pmsd West High School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,200 people in Swiftwater, 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.