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Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet PA107 · Schuylkill County 188 sys · 19,535 viol · #471/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 94.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #471/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
  • PFAS-MID 27.3% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 94%
  • SYS-LARGE 188 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Perry County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Schuylkill County ranks #471 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #25 of 68 counties in Pennsylvania. See methodology · corpus placement.

Schuylkill County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 94.7% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 27.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #471 of 3,254 · #25 of 68 in Pennsylvania.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Schuylkill County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Greene · lowest Carbon · near Perry · near Sullivan · highest 66.7% 94.3% 94.4% 94.7% 94.9% 94.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Schuylkill Co Mun Auth 31,850 241 Clean
Aqua Shenandoah 9,500 113 Detected
Tamaqua Area Water Authority 8,000 168 Clean
Minersville Municipal Water Au 7,275 395 Clean
Blythe Twp Municipal Authority 7,100 104 Clean
Kline Township Mun Authority 6,700 242 Clean
Schuylkill Haven Boro Water 6,000 110 Clean
Mahanoy Twp Auth 5,584 129 Clean
PA Am Water Co-Frackville Dist 5,583 8 Detected
Ashland Area Water Authority 4,200 179 Detected
Hegins Hubley Authority 3,870 74 Clean
Tower City Authority 3,150 465 -
Orwigsburg Municipal Water Wks 3,000 57 -
Pine Grove Boro Water System 2,711 56 -
Scma-Tremont 2,515 216 -
Plum Creek Municipal Auth 2,500 577 -
Farm Sch Co Fairground 999 85 -
Aqua PA Eagle Rock Utilities 956 500 -
Auburn Municipal Authority 920 84 -
Blue Mountain High School 900 18 -
Ringtown Boro Water Department 823 25 -
Scma Pinebrook 735 16 -
Hawk Mountain Scout Reservatio 700 29 -
Aqua PA Oneida 568 33 -
Scma Orwigsburg Interconnect 500 4 -
Dcnr Locust Lake State Park 500 35 -
Hampton Inn Pine Grove 500 0 -
Mountain Water Authority 495 147 -
The Pines at West Penn 466 32 -
White Birch Golf Course 400 37 -
Blue Mt Christian Retreat #3 400 15 -
Deer Lake Citizens Assoc 380 101 -
Blue Mtn Elementary West 375 51 -
West Penn Elementary 360 233 -
Frieden Manor MHP 350 165 -
Versum Materials US LLC 350 105 -
Nuremburg Water Co Veolia 340 180 -
Marian High School 320 43 -
Papettis Hygrade Egg Products 290 247 -
North Schuy Sch Dist Gym Well 270 8 -
Scma Pine Grove Township 260 387 -
Mary D Community Association 250 379 -
Andreas Sporting Club 250 38 -
Mountain Valley Golf Course 250 58 -
Community Fire Co Landingville 250 12 -
Morea Citizens Water Company 225 68 -
Omnova North America Inc 220 249 -
Port Clinton Water Coop Assoc 200 515 -
Rosemount Camping 200 116 -
Dcnr Tuscarora State Park 200 45 -

Compare beyond Pennsylvania

Mid-flagged peers for Schuylkill County

Cross-state counties nearest Schuylkill County on flagged-system share (94.7%) and cumulative violation count (19,535). 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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