Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA6620857

Wendys Cafe

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateRussell, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2019: 3 violations. 3 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-09-22.

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
3Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 20% 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: 22019 · Missed or late test: 220202024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 3

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-09-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-09-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityRussell
EPA ZIP on file16345

Areas served

  • Warren County

Reading this record

Wendys Cafe is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Russell, 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.