Kline Township Mun Authority

Water Quality Snapshot: Kline Township Mun Authority

Kline Township Mun Authority is a private-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 6,700 residents in McAdoo, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill County) through 2,008 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 242 total violations for this system , of which 13 (5%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 201 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Chlorine, recorded in 23 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

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%).

Kline Township Mun Authority's 242 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.