Community Water System · PWSID PA2660015

Westgate Water System

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentTunkhannock, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 23 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 1997: 70 violations. 36 missed or late tests · 34 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-01-11.

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
36Missed or late test
34Notice or report23 open

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

1997 · Missed or late test: 11998 · Missed or late test: 120002003 · Notice or report: 22005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212022 · Missed or late test: 212023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212024 · Notice or report: 212025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
51% missed or late test · 3649% notice or report · 34

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

Open now (23)

  1. 2024-01-11Public Notice ×21PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  3. 2023-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-11Public Notice ×21PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  3. 2023-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2022-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2022-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2022-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2022-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2022-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2022-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2022-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 25 entries
  1. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2019-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2019-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2019-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2017-02-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  21. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2003-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  23. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 1998-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  25. 1997-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections43
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityTunkhannock
EPA ZIP on file18657

Areas served

  • Wyoming County

Reading this record

Westgate Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Tunkhannock, 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.