Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400546

The Lookout House

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSugarloaf, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 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 2005: 37 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 21 missed or late tests · 15 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-11.

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
1Treatment lapse
21Missed or late test
15Notice or report6 open

More violations on record than 84% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 157% missed or late test · 2141% notice or report · 15

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

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2024-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2025-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2024-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  11. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-12-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  13. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2021-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2020-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 8 entries
  1. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2017-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  5. 2016-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2012-01-11Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2005-03-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySugarloaf
EPA ZIP on file18249

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

The Lookout House is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Sugarloaf, 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.