Community Water System · PWSID PA5040055

Vanport Twp Muni Auth

Serves 1,450 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentVanport, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2019: 18 violations. 17 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-03-01.

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
17Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% 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

2005201020152019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 152020 · Missed or late test: 1520202024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
94% missed or late test · 176% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-03-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance

System details

Population served1,450
Service connections318
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityVanport
EPA ZIP on file15009

Areas served

  • Beaver County

Reading this record

Vanport Twp Muni Auth is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,450 people in Vanport, 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.