Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7671087

Whales Snails Puppy Dog Tails

Serves 135 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEtters, PennsylvaniaServes a school or daycare
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On record since 2009: 84 violations. 79 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-01-01.

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
79Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

20052009 · Notice or report: 220102011 · Missed or late test: 12011 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132018 · Missed or late test: 132019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 472019 · Missed or late test: 4720202021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
94% missed or late test · 796% 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. 2022-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-05-26E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
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  1. 2019-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2019-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2019-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2019-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2019-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2019-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2019-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2019-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2019-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2019-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2019-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2019-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2019-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  38. 2018-01-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  39. 2018-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2018-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2018-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2018-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2018-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2018-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2018-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2018-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2018-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2018-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2018-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2018-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  52. 2017-05-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  53. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  54. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  55. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  56. 2011-12-26E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  57. 2011-08-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  58. 2009-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served135
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEtters
EPA ZIP on file17319

Areas served

  • York County

Reading this record

Whales Snails Puppy Dog Tails is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 135 people in Etters, 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.