Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3130849

The Woods

Serves 600 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLehighton, Pennsylvania
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2015: 41 violations. 3 over the limit · 9 treatment lapses · 17 missed or late tests · 12 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-23.

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

3Over the limit
9Treatment lapse1 open
17Missed or late test1 open
12Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% 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 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Missed or late test: 62015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22019 · Over the limit: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 322% treatment lapse · 941% missed or late test · 1729% notice or report · 12

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-09-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2015-07-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-23Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  2. 2025-09-23Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-06-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-05-05Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2023-10-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2023-08-25Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2023-08-25Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-25E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-10-16Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  15. 2022-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2022-04-19Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  17. 2022-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2021-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  22. 2019-04-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  23. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2017-08-31Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  25. 2017-08-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
Show the other 9 entries
  1. 2017-07-31E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-04-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2016-06-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2016-04-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  7. 2015-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2015-08-16E. Coli ×5Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-07-12E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

System details

Population served600
Service connections200
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLehighton
EPA ZIP on file18235

Areas served

  • Carbon County

Reading this record

The Woods is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 600 people in Lehighton, 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.