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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA2451058

Spruce Lake Retreat Center

Operator location Canadensis, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 277 people served; 50 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

277
People served (this PWS)
50
EPA violations (this PWS)
3
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Spruce Lake Retreat Center standing, mid SDWIS violation third

277 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Spruce Lake Retreat Center lands in the middle third by violation volume (50), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (277; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

50
Total EPA violations on record
6%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
277
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
19
County
Monroe
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
40
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Chlorine MR 15 2018
Public Notice Other 5 2019
E. COLI MR 4 2019
Lead and Copper Rule TT 3 2019
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2021
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 1 2021
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 1 2021
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 1 2021
Toluene MR 1 2021
CHLOROBENZENE MR 1 2021
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2021
Ethylbenzene MR 1 2021
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2021
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 2021
Benzene MR 1 2021
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2021
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 2021
Styrene MR 1 2021
Trichloroethylene MR 1 2021
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 1 2021
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 1 2021
Xylenes, Total MR 1 2021
Tetrachloroethylene MR 1 2021
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2021
Nitrate MR 1 1986

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Spruce Lake Retreat Center has 50 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 50), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

50 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 Spruce Lake Retreat Center

EPA SDWIS lists 277 people served and 19 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

50 violations · 277 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems near this violation count

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Spruce Lake Retreat Center

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Pennsylvania compares on the same EPA violation measures. Pennsylvania systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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