Community Water System · PWSID PA5030049

South Buffalo Twp Muni Auth

Serves 1,230 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentFreeport, 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 2004: 44 violations. 9 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests · 28 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-10.

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

9Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
28Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 87% 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

2004 · Notice or report: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32006 · Notice or report: 32007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32008 · Notice or report: 32009 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 42009 · Notice or report: 42010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 32010 · Notice or report: 320102011 · Notice or report: 32011 · Notice or report: 32011 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
20% over the limit · 916% missed or late test · 764% 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. 2012-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0910 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2025-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0920 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1030 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2024-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0930 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0960 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0880 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-10-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2023-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2023-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0830 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2018-11-05Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  17. 2017-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, AverageBack in compliance
  18. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2012-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  24. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2012-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 19 entries
  1. 2011-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2011-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2011-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2010-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2010-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2010-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2009-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2009-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2009-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2009-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2008-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2008-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2008-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2007-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2006-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2006-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2006-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2005-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,230
Service connections559
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityFreeport
EPA ZIP on file16229

Areas served

  • Armstrong County

Reading this record

South Buffalo Twp Muni Auth is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 1,230 people in Freeport, 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.