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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA2580323

Harford Penn-Can Service

Operator location Scranton, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 350 people served; 249 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

350
People served (this PWS)
249
EPA violations (this PWS)
41
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Harford Penn-Can Service standing, high SDWIS violation third

350 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Harford Penn-Can Service sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (249), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

249
Total EPA violations on record
16%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
350
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
Susquehanna
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
135
Treatment Tech Violations
25

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 35 2025
E. COLI MR 29 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 25 2025
Public Notice Other 23 2025
Coliform (TCR) MCL 10 2015
Revised Total Coliform Rule MCL 6 2017
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 5 2004
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 5 2004
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 5 2004
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 5 2004
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 5 2004
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 5 2004
Carbon tetrachloride MR 5 2004
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 5 2004
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 5 2004
CHLOROBENZENE MR 5 2004
Benzene MR 5 2004
Toluene MR 5 2004
Xylenes, Total MR 5 2004
Ethylbenzene MR 5 2004
Styrene MR 5 2004
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 5 2004
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 5 2004
Tetrachloroethylene MR 5 2004
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 5 2004
Trichloroethylene MR 5 2004
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2017
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 1994
Revised Total Coliform Rule Other 2 2016
Nitrate MR 1 1979

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Harford Penn-Can Service has 249 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (41 of 249), 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)

249 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Harford Penn-Can Service

EPA SDWIS lists 350 people served and 2 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

249 violations · 350 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.

4 peers

What to do with Harford Penn-Can Service

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