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Centre County, Pennsylvania

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet PA027 · Centre County 78 sys · 21,783 viol · #359/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 96.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #359/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-MID 37.5% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 83%
  • SYS-MID 78 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: York County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Centre County ranks #359 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #18 of 68 counties in Pennsylvania. See methodology · corpus placement.

Centre County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 96.2% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 37.5% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #359 of 3,254 · #18 of 68 in Pennsylvania.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Centre County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Centre County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Greene · lowest York · near Lehigh · near Sullivan · highest 66.7% 96.2% 96.2% 96.5% 96.5% 96.5% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
State College Boro Water Auth 72,000 143 Clean
Penn State Univ 37,000 171 Clean
Paw Philipsburg 20,784 0 Clean
Bellefonte Borough Water Auth 9,500 1,031 Clean
College Twp Water Authority 6,000 652 Detected
Rockview Sci 5,200 584 Detected
Mountaintop Reg Water Auth 3,456 177 -
Spring Twp Water Authority 3,300 226 Detected
Walker Twp Water Assoc 3,250 393 -
Milesburg Borough Water Auth 2,750 213 -
Centre Hall Boro Water Dept 1,900 94 Clean
Upper Halfmoon Water 1,500 124 -
Paw Nittany 1,499 184 -
Bald Eagle State Park 1,276 55 -
Penns Valley Area High School 1,170 262 -
Borough of Howard 1,001 392 -
Rock Spring Water Co 1,000 807 -
Millheim Borough Water Company 902 786 -
Oak Ridge Authority 700 690 -
Hampton Hills Benner Twp Auth 684 7 -
Gregg Township Water Authority 670 465 -
Port Matilda Waterworks 615 919 -
Haines Aaronsburg Mun Auth 550 899 -
Miles Twp Water Auth East 425 427 -
Penn Twp Water Dist 300 156 -
Halfmoon Water Association 300 187 -
Ridge Crest Community 300 79 -
Unionville Municipal Waterwks 290 141 -
The Meadows 289 61 -
Madisonburg Water Works 250 713 -
Seven Mountains Scout Camp 200 35 -
Burkholders Market 200 41 -
Homans General Store 200 9 -
Grove Park Benner Twp Auth 185 80 -
Trotter Farms 175 101 -
Krislund Camp & Conference Ctr 160 54 -
Haines Woodward Municipal Auth 140 471 -
Monument Water Authority 140 503 -
Mount Eagle Water Assoc 130 3,283 -
Bellefonte Campground LLC 125 46 -
St Joseph Institute 109 0 -
Centre County Mhc LLC 100 847 -
Black Hawk Mobile Home Park 100 84 -
Paw Boggs 100 28 -
Black Moshannon State Park 100 13 -
Bellefonte KOA Campground 100 44 -
Penn-Roosevelt State Park 100 19 -
Country Time Coffee Company 100 0 -
Poe Valley State Park 90 55 -
Poe Paddy State Park 90 45 -

Compare beyond Pennsylvania

Mid-flagged peers for Centre County

Cross-state counties nearest Centre County on flagged-system share (96.2%) and cumulative violation count (21,783). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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