Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2640523

Sterling Sewer and Water Co

Serves 903 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateScranton, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2022: 33 violations. 5 treatment lapses · 15 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-10-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
5Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test1 open
13Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 81% 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

20052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Missed or late test: 122023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 52025 · Treatment lapse: 52025 · Treatment lapse: 52025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 102025 · Notice or report: 102025 · Notice or report: 102025 · Notice or report: 102025 · Notice or report: 102025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
15% treatment lapse · 545% missed or late test · 1539% notice or report · 13

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2025-09-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2025-09-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-08-12Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2025-08-12Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2025-07-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2025-06-24Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2025-06-24Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2025-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2025-04-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2025-04-08Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2025-04-08Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2025-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2025-03-18Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  14. 2025-03-18Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  15. 2025-02-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2025-02-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2024-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2023-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2023-04-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2023-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2023-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2023-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2023-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 8 entries
  1. 2023-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-01-012, 3, 7, 8-TcddMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served903
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityScranton
EPA ZIP on file18508

Areas served

  • Wayne County

Reading this record

Sterling Sewer and Water Co is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 903 people in Scranton, 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.