Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA3060534

Tipsy Times

Serves 139 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDouglassville, Pennsylvania
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On record since 1979: 50 violations. 1 over the limit · 47 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-09-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
47Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 89% 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

1979 · Missed or late test: 21980 · Missed or late test: 41980 · Missed or late test: 419801981 · Missed or late test: 31981 · Missed or late test: 31982 · Missed or late test: 11983 · Missed or late test: 119851986 · Missed or late test: 21987 · Missed or late test: 31987 · Missed or late test: 31988 · Missed or late test: 11989 · Missed or late test: 119901995200020052010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 120152020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 122020 · Missed or late test: 1220202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152022 · Missed or late test: 152025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 194% missed or late test · 474% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2022-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2021-10-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2021-07-01NitrateMonitoring, Check/Repeat/ConfirmationPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2021-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.20 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2020-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2020-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2020-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2020-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2011-12-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2010-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 1989-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  9. 1988-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  10. 1987-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  11. 1987-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  12. 1987-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  13. 1986-12-24NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  14. 1986-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  15. 1983-12-24NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  16. 1982-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  17. 1981-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  18. 1981-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  19. 1981-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  20. 1980-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  21. 1980-07-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  22. 1980-04-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  23. 1980-01-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  24. 1979-12-24NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  25. 1979-10-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served139
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDouglassville
EPA ZIP on file19518

Areas served

  • Berks County

Reading this record

Tipsy Times is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 139 people in Douglassville, 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.