Community Water System · PWS PA4070011
Blair Twp Water & Sewer Auth
Operator location Duncansville, Pennsylvania - 7% of 44 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,550 served per SDWIS.
- 2,550
- People served (this PWS)
- 44
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Blair Twp Water & Sewer Auth standing, mid SDWIS violation third
7% of 44 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,741 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Blair Twp Water & Sewer Auth lands in the middle third by violation volume (44), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,550 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,741 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #450 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 44
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 905
- County
- Blair
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 34
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 3 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Blair Twp Water & Sewer Auth has 44 recorded EPA violations, 53% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 44), and it ranks #11,741 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)
44 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Blair Twp Water & Sewer Auth
3 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA4070011.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
44 violations · 2,550 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Blair Twp Water & Sewer Auth
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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