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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA3390933

Lehigh Career & Technical Inst

Operator location Schnecksville, Pennsylvania - 26% of 129 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,400 served per SDWIS.

2,400
People served (this PWS)
129
EPA violations (this PWS)
33
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lehigh Career & Technical Inst standing, high SDWIS violation third

26% of 129 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 26% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,269 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lehigh Career & Technical Inst sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (129), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,400 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 26% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,269 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#470 of 1,340
Population · PA
129
Total EPA violations on record
26%
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
1
County
Lehigh
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
33
Monitoring Violations
94
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 35 2015
Coliform (TCR) MCL 33 2015
E. COLI MR 33 2015
Nitrate MR 8 2014
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 6 2023
TTHM MR 6 2023
Nitrite MR 4 2014
Chlorine MR 2 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lehigh Career & Technical Inst has 129 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 26% of this system's own violations are health-based (33 of 129), and it ranks #12,269 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)

129 Higher than most more violations than 78% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Lehigh Career & Technical Inst

33 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA3390933.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

129 violations · 2,400 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

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

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