Community Water System · PWSID PA5100140

Sutton MHP

Serves 96 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateButler, 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 2003: 13 violations. 8 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-07-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
5Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 59% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 1200520102013 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
62% missed or late test · 838% notice or report · 5

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2017-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2016-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2004-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  12. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served96
Service connections41
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityButler
EPA ZIP on file16001

Areas served

  • Butler County

Reading this record

Sutton MHP is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 96 people in Butler, 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.