Community Water System · PWS PA2590029
Watrous Water Association
Operator location Gaines, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 75 people served; 881 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 75
- People served (this PWS)
- 881
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Watrous Water Association standing, high SDWIS violation third
75 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Watrous Water Association sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (881), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (75; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 881
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 75
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 28
- County
- Tioga
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 791
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 221 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 135 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 53 | 2015 |
| Public Notice | Other | 52 | 2012 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 27 | 2011 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 26 | 2011 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 26 | 2011 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 26 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 23 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 22 | 1998 |
| 2,3,7,8-TCDD | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| Endrin | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Endothall | MR | 8 | 2015 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 8 | 2015 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 8 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2017 |
| Dalapon | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Picloram | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| Atrazine | MR | 7 | 2014 |
| LASSO | MR | 7 | 2014 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Watrous Water Association has 881 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 881), 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)
881 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Watrous Water Association
EPA SDWIS lists 75 people served and 28 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
881 violations · 75 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.
What to do with Watrous Water Association
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