Community Water System · PWS PA1090159
Buckingham Twp Furlong
Operator location Buckingham, Pennsylvania - 0% of 151 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 4,150 served per SDWIS.
- 4,150
- People served (this PWS)
- 151
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Buckingham Twp Furlong standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 151 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #8,668 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Buckingham Twp Furlong sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (151), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (4,150; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,668 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #319 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 151
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1,227
- County
- Bucks
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 150
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 10 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2022 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Benzene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Styrene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 2 | 2001 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 2 | 2001 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 2 | 2001 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Buckingham Twp Furlong has 151 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 151), and it ranks #8,668 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
151 Higher than most more violations than 81% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Buckingham Twp Furlong
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA1090159.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
151 violations · 4,150 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Buckingham Twp Furlong
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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