Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA3060310
Bear Creek Mountain Resort
Operator location Macungie, Pennsylvania - larger served population (> 3,309) at 4,500 people served; 81 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 4,500
- People served (this PWS)
- 81
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bear Creek Mountain Resort standing, high SDWIS violation third
4,500 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #8,257 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bear Creek Mountain Resort sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (81), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (4,500; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,257 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #292 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 81
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 4
- County
- Berks
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 61
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 13 | 2018 |
| Nitrate | MR | 13 | 1998 |
| Nitrite | MR | 13 | 1998 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2001 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2018 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Endothall | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Simazine | MR | 2 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bear Creek Mountain Resort has 81 recorded EPA violations, 69% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 31% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 81), and it ranks #8,257 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
81 Around the middle fewer violations than 31% 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 Bear Creek Mountain Resort
EPA SDWIS lists 4,500 people served and 4 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
81 violations · 4,500 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bear Creek Mountain Resort
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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