Community Water System · PWSID MD0010045

Southern Region Allegany Distrib. System

Serves 865 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentCumberland, Maryland
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On record since 2003: 3 violations. 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2009-07-01.

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
0Missed or late test
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% of active water systems in Maryland. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 3

Across Maryland, 72% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served865
Service connections3
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCumberland
EPA ZIP on file21502

Areas served

  • Allegany County

Reading this record

Southern Region Allegany Distrib. System is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 865 people in Cumberland, Maryland. 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.