Community Water System · PWSID PA4050032

Rainsburg Borough Water

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBedford, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 87 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 49 missed or late tests · 37 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-02-01.

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
49Missed or late test
37Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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: 12004 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Notice or report: 22005 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 1200520102013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 102018 · Missed or late test: 102018 · Missed or late test: 102018 · Missed or late test: 102020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312021 · Missed or late test: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312023 · Notice or report: 312025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 156% missed or late test · 4943% notice or report · 37

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2023-01-11Public Notice ×31PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2021-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2021-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2021-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2021-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2021-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2021-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 32 entries
  1. 2021-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2021-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-02-01Groundwater RuleTreatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2018-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2018-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2018-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2018-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2018-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2018-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2017-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  25. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2013-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2005-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  29. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  30. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  31. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  32. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections74
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBedford
EPA ZIP on file15522

Areas served

  • Bedford County

Reading this record

Rainsburg Borough Water is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Bedford, 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.