Community Water System · PWSID PA5650036

Torrance State Hospital

Serves 997 peopleSurface WaterOwner: StateTorrance, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2008: 15 violations. 13 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 64% 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

20052008 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
87% missed or late test · 1313% 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. 2024-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  6. 2021-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2021-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2017-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2016-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Failure Submit Filter Profile/CPE ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance

System details

Population served997
Service connections26
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityTorrance
EPA ZIP on file15779

Areas served

  • Westmoreland County

Reading this record

Torrance State Hospital is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 997 people in Torrance, 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.