Community Water System · PWSID PA6620007

West Sheffield Water Assn

Serves 225 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSheffield, Pennsylvania
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On record since 2003: 12 violations. 1 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
8Missed or late test
3Notice 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

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 1200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 167% missed or late test · 825% notice or report · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-03Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2017-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  8. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2015-07-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served225
Service connections72
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySheffield
EPA ZIP on file16347

Areas served

  • Warren County

Reading this record

West Sheffield Water Assn is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 225 people in Sheffield, 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.