Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth

Water Quality Snapshot: Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth

Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 21,000 residents in Reading, Pennsylvania (Berks County) through 8,268 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 597 total violations for this system , of which 42 (7%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 546 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 Coliform (TCR), recorded in 25 violations (MCL, health-based). Under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, 9 PFAS compounds were detected in samples collected from this system, with a maximum reported concentration of 16 ppt (parts per trillion). PFAS are persistent synthetic chemicals linked to health effects at very low exposure levels.

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%).

Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth's 597 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.