Community Water System · PWSID PA3480059

Portland Boro Authority

Serves 1,100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentPortland, Pennsylvania
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On record since 1992: 34 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 16 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-11.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
16Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

1992 · Treatment lapse: 1199520002004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 220052008 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Notice or report: 22011 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122023 · Notice or report: 122025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 1747% notice or report · 16

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-11Public Notice ×12PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2011-02-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2008-04-01Dbp Stage 2Monitoring, Routine (IDSE)Back in compliance
  20. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,100
Service connections410
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPortland
EPA ZIP on file18351

Areas served

  • Northampton County

Reading this record

Portland Boro Authority is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,100 people in Portland, 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.