Village Court
A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.
On record since 2012: 70 violations. 2 over the limit · 13 treatment lapses · 31 missed or late tests · 24 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-10-01.
For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.
More violations on record than 93% 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
Across Pennsylvania, 71% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.
Open now (1)
- 2016-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
Every violation on record
- 2025-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2025-09-27E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2025-08-24Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2025-08-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2025-08-24Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2023-01-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2022-11-27Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2022-11-27Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2TTBack in compliance
- 2022-11-26Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2022-11-26Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2022-10-30E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2022-05-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2022-03-28Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2022-03-28Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2021-12-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2021-11-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2021-10-29Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2021-10-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2021-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2021-10-02Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2021-10-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2021-08-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2021-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
- 2021-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
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- 2020-10-31Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2020-10-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2020-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
- 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
- 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2019-01-01Nitrite ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
- 2019-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
- 2018-12-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2018-12-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2018-10-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2018-10-28Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2018-10-28Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2018-10-27Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2018-10-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2018-09-30E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2018-09-20Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2018-09-20Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2018-08-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2018-08-20E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2018-07-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
- 2018-07-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
- 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
- 2016-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2016-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
- 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
- 2015-12-15E. Coli ×4Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
- 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
- 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
- 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
- 2012-01-31E. Coli ×4Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
System details
| Population served | 30 |
| Service connections | 10 |
| Water source | Groundwater |
| System type | Transient Non-Community |
| Owner | Private |
| Status | Active |
| City | Mount Bethel |
| EPA ZIP on file | 18343 |
Areas served
- Monroe County
Reading this record
Village Court is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 30 people in Mount Bethel, 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.