Community Water System · PWSID PA4050023

Woodbury Water Authority

Serves 295 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWoodbury, 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 2007: 18 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-02-14.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
10Missed or late test
6Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 68% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 16% treatment lapse · 156% missed or late test · 1033% notice or report · 6

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.6 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2018-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-02-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-01-04Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-04Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  5. 2021-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01AsbestosMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2019-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2018-07-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2018-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served295
Service connections227
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWoodbury
EPA ZIP on file16695

Areas served

  • Bedford County

Reading this record

Woodbury Water Authority is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 295 people in Woodbury, 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.