Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA5040817

Rumors Tavern

Serves 75 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateZelienople, Pennsylvania
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2016: 17 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 8 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 67% 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: 120202022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 112% treatment lapse · 247% missed or late test · 835% 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. 2025-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-12-13Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-03-26E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2022-11-13Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  8. 2022-09-27E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2022-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2022-08-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2022-08-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2022-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2022-08-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  16. 2022-06-27E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served75
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityZelienople
EPA ZIP on file16063

Areas served

  • Beaver County

Reading this record

Rumors Tavern is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 75 people in Zelienople, 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.