Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA1090302

Union Square

Serves 300 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNew Hope, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 27 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 18 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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
1Treatment lapse
18Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 77% 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

2003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Missed or late test: 120052008 · Treatment lapse: 120102014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82014 · Notice or report: 82015 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122024 · Missed or late test: 122025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 167% missed or late test · 1830% notice or report · 8

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-05-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2015-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2014-12-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2014-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2014-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2014-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2014-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2014-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2014-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2014-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2008-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
Show the other 2 entries
  1. 2004-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  2. 2003-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections8
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNew Hope
EPA ZIP on file18938

Areas served

  • Bucks County

Reading this record

Union Square is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 300 people in New Hope, 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.