Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA1460351

Three Brothers Mexican Grill

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCollegeville, 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 2011: 32 violations. 2 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 14 missed or late tests · 13 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-21.

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

2Over the limit
3Treatment lapse1 open
14Missed or late test
13Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 81% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 320152016 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 52022 · Notice or report: 52022 · Notice or report: 52022 · Notice or report: 52022 · Notice or report: 52023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Over the limit: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · 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.
6% over the limit · 29% treatment lapse · 344% missed or late test · 1441% notice or report · 13

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 (3)

  1. 2025-09-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  3. 2025-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2025-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  4. 2025-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2025-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2022-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2022-09-09Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  18. 2022-09-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  19. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  20. 2022-05-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2022-04-17Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  22. 2022-04-17Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  23. 2022-03-19E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2021-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  3. 2014-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2014-11-12Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2014-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2014-09-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2011-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCollegeville
EPA ZIP on file19426

Areas served

  • Montgomery County

Reading this record

Three Brothers Mexican Grill is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Collegeville, 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.