Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA2400974
Bear Mart
Operator location Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 500 people served; 103 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 500
- People served (this PWS)
- 103
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bear Mart standing, high SDWIS violation third
500 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #29,492 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bear Mart sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (103), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (500; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #29,492 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,236 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 103
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Luzerne
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 97
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 32 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 22 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 16 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 14 | 2024 |
| E. COLI | MR | 13 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2011 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 2 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bear Mart has 103 recorded EPA violations, 74% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 26% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 103), and it ranks #29,492 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)
103 Around the middle fewer violations than 26% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Bear Mart
EPA SDWIS lists 500 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
103 violations · 500 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 smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bear Mart
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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