Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3130369

The Riverwalck

Serves 500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePalmerton, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2016: 34 violations. 10 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-27.

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
10Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
19Notice or report

More violations on record than 82% 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

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 32018 · Treatment lapse: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 32018 · Notice or report: 32020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 52022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 102022 · Notice or report: 102022 · Notice or report: 102022 · Notice or report: 102022 · Notice or report: 102023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
29% treatment lapse · 1015% missed or late test · 556% notice or report · 19

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2022-12-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-12-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2022-12-17Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2022-12-17Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2022-11-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2022-11-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  12. 2022-11-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2022-11-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2022-10-21Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  15. 2022-10-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  16. 2022-10-18E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2022-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2022-08-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  19. 2022-08-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  20. 2022-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2021-11-23Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  23. 2021-11-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  24. 2021-02-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2020-12-27Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
Show the other 9 entries
  1. 2020-12-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  2. 2018-11-25Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2018-11-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2018-11-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  5. 2018-11-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2018-10-25Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2018-10-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-23E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance

System details

Population served500
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPalmerton
EPA ZIP on file18071

Areas served

  • Carbon County

Reading this record

The Riverwalck is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 500 people in Palmerton, 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.