Community Water System · PWSID PA3390039

Slatington Borough Water Sys

Serves 4,450 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentSlatington, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2005: 21 violations. 1 over the limit · 16 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-10-12.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 72% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 12005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Missed or late test: 122021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 176% missed or late test · 1619% notice or report · 4

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.9 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-10-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  3. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2021-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2020-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2016-10-01Carbon, TotalMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served4,450
Service connections1,465
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySlatington
EPA ZIP on file18080

Areas served

  • Lehigh County

Reading this record

Slatington Borough Water Sys is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 4,450 people in Slatington, 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.