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Community Water System · PWS PA4110021

Jackson Twp Water Auth

Operator location Mineral Point, Pennsylvania - 53% of 295 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 4,236 served per SDWIS.

4,236
People served (this PWS)
295
EPA violations (this PWS)
155
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Jackson Twp Water Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third

53% of 295 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #8,551 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Jackson Twp Water Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (295), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (4,236; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#8,551 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#312 of 1,340
Population · PA
295
Total EPA violations on record
53%
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
1,550
County
Cambria
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
150
Monitoring Violations
52
Treatment Tech Violations
1

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 92 2022
Public Notice Other 73 2022
TTHM MCL 55 2017
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 14 2024
TTHM MR 10 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 10 2023
Chlorine MR 9 2024
Chlorine MRDL 4 2005
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2020
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 1992
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 1999
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2022
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 2005
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 1 2006

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Jackson Twp Water Auth has 295 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (155 of 295), and it ranks #8,551 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)

295 Higher than most more violations than 91% 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 Jackson Twp Water Auth

155 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA4110021.

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

Nationwide peers

295 violations · 4,236 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 with similar served population

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

4 peers

What to do with Jackson Twp Water Auth

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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