Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3061235

Saucony Creek Brewing

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateKutztown, Pennsylvania
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2016: 13 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 3 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-09-24.

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

3Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
3Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 59% 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: 22016 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% over the limit · 38% treatment lapse · 123% missed or late test · 346% notice or report · 6

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-09-24Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2023-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-08-27Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2023-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  7. 2022-12-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  9. 2022-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2022-10-02E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  11. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  12. 2016-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2016-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityKutztown
EPA ZIP on file19530

Areas served

  • Berks County

Reading this record

Saucony Creek Brewing is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Kutztown, 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.