Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA2400380

Village Tavern

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBenton, Pennsylvania
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2016: 12 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-01-11.

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

1Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 57% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 133% treatment lapse · 417% missed or late test · 242% notice or report · 5

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-03-13Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-21Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-21Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-15Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  7. 2021-12-18E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-09-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2021-08-13Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2021-08-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBenton
EPA ZIP on file17814

Areas served

  • Luzerne County

Reading this record

Village Tavern is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Benton, 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.