Community Water System · PWSID PA4050021

Saxton Muni Water Auth

Serves 1,675 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentSaxton, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2012: 95 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 65 missed or late tests · 28 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-01.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
65Missed or late test
28Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

200520102012 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 92019 · Missed or late test: 920202021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232021 · Missed or late test: 232022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232023 · Notice or report: 232024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Notice or report: 32025 · 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% over the limit · 11% treatment lapse · 168% missed or late test · 6529% notice or report · 28

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-08-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  6. 2024-05-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2024-04-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0710 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2024-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2023-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  13. 2023-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2023-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2023-01-11Public Notice ×20PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2023-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2023-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2021-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 49 entries
  1. 2021-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2021-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2021-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2021-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2021-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2021-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  26. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2019-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  28. 2019-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  29. 2019-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  30. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  31. 2018-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  32. 2018-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  33. 2018-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  34. 2018-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  35. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  36. 2018-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2018-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2017-10-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2017-10-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  41. 2017-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  42. 2017-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  43. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  44. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  45. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  46. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  47. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  48. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  49. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,675
Service connections709
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySaxton
EPA ZIP on file16678

Areas served

  • Bedford County

Reading this record

Saxton Muni Water Auth is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 1,675 people in Saxton, 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.