Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA4340314

Zook Lyter Cottages

Serves 42 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMexico, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2010: 80 violations. 1 over the limit · 5 treatment lapses · 50 missed or late tests · 24 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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

1Over the limit
5Treatment lapse
50Missed or late test
24Notice or report2 open

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

20052010 · Missed or late test: 120102012 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 32013 · Notice or report: 32014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 102019 · Missed or late test: 102019 · Missed or late test: 102019 · Missed or late test: 102019 · Missed or late test: 102019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Over the limit: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Missed or late test: 62021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Missed or late test: 122022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% over the limit · 16% treatment lapse · 563% missed or late test · 5030% notice or report · 24

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2016-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2024-05-15Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  4. 2023-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2023-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2022-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2022-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2022-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-08-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2022-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2022-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  21. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2022-04-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 51 entries
  1. 2021-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2021-07-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-06-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-05-07Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-01-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-11-27Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2020-11-27Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  14. 2020-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2020-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2020-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  18. 2020-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2019-10-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  22. 2019-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-08-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2019-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-07-02Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  26. 2019-07-02Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  27. 2019-07-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  28. 2019-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  29. 2019-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  30. 2019-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2018-09-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2017-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  34. 2017-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  35. 2017-08-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  36. 2017-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  37. 2016-09-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  38. 2016-07-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  39. 2016-06-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2016-06-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  41. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  42. 2016-05-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  43. 2016-04-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  44. 2015-10-01Groundwater RuleMonitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Unfilt/GWR)Back in compliance
  45. 2015-07-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  46. 2015-06-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  47. 2014-01-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  48. 2013-01-11Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  49. 2012-11-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  50. 2012-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  51. 2010-08-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served42
Service connections7
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMexico
EPA ZIP on file17056

Areas served

  • Juniata County

Reading this record

Zook Lyter Cottages is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 42 people in Mexico, 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.