Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2520983

Sunset Point Association

Serves 248 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBethlehem, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2015: 14 violations. 3 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 4 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-11-22.

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3Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 62% 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

200520102015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 320152017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
21% over the limit · 314% treatment lapse · 229% missed or late test · 436% notice or report · 5

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2023-10-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2017-09-18Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2017-09-18Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2017-08-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served248
Service connections63
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBethlehem
EPA ZIP on file18015

Areas served

  • Pike County

Reading this record

Sunset Point Association is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 248 people in Bethlehem, 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.