E Stroudsburg Boro Water Dept

Water Quality Snapshot: E Stroudsburg Boro Water Dept

E Stroudsburg Boro Water Dept is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 13,000 residents in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (Monroe County) through 3,101 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 603 total violations for this system , of which 48 (8%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 529 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Benzo(a)pyrene, recorded in 26 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Pennsylvania, EPA tracks 7,701 public water systems serving 12,630,061 people, with 1,159,868 cumulative violations and 68,517 health-based violations on record. About 97% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 150.6 violations. Statewide, 224 of 389 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (57.6%).

E Stroudsburg Boro Water Dept's 603 violations sit above the Pennsylvania average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.