Community Water System · PWS PA4110061
W Carroll Twp W Auth St Bened
Operator location Elmora, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 488 people served; 551 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 488
- People served (this PWS)
- 551
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
W Carroll Twp W Auth St Bened standing, high SDWIS violation third
488 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
W Carroll Twp W Auth St Bened sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (551), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (488; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 551
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 488
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 203
- County
- Cambria
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 486
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 207 | 2024 |
| Chlorine | MR | 63 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 30 | 2016 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 27 | 2023 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 18 | 2005 |
| Public Notice | Other | 16 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2018 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Cadmium | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Fluoride | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Nickel | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Selenium | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 6 | 1995 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2005 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 3 | 1994 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| Simazine | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
W Carroll Twp W Auth St Bened has 551 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 551), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
551 Higher than most more violations than 96% 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 W Carroll Twp W Auth St Bened
EPA SDWIS lists 488 people served and 203 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
551 violations · 488 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.
What to do with W Carroll Twp W Auth St Bened
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