Community Water System · PWSID PA6430052

Sandy Lake Boro

Serves 1,100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSandy Lake, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2018: 17 violations. 17 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
17Missed or late test
0Notice 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

2005201020152018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22024 · 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: 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: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 17

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, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2022-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,100
Service connections357
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySandy Lake
EPA ZIP on file16145

Areas served

  • Mercer County

Reading this record

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