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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA4110308

St Nicholas Catholic School

Operator location Nicktown,, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 150 people served; 496 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

150
People served (this PWS)
496
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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St Nicholas Catholic School standing, high SDWIS violation third

150 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

St Nicholas Catholic School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (496), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (150; 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.

496
Total EPA violations on record
1%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
150
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Public/Private
Connections
1
County
Cambria
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
6
Monitoring Violations
477
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Xylenes, Total MR 19 2022
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 19 2022
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 19 2022
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 19 2022
Trichloroethylene MR 19 2022
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 19 2022
CHLOROBENZENE MR 19 2022
Benzene MR 19 2022
Ethylbenzene MR 19 2022
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 19 2022
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 19 2022
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 19 2022
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 19 2022
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 19 2022
Toluene MR 19 2022
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 19 2022
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 19 2022
Tetrachloroethylene MR 19 2022
Carbon tetrachloride MR 19 2022
Styrene MR 19 2022
Nitrate MR 14 2018
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2005
Coliform (TCR) MCL 6 2003
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 1999
Arsenic MR 5 2021
Barium MR 4 2000
Cadmium MR 4 2000
Chromium MR 4 2000
Nickel MR 4 2000
Selenium MR 4 2000

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

St Nicholas Catholic School has 496 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 496), 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)

496 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 St Nicholas Catholic School

EPA SDWIS lists 150 people served and 1 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

496 violations · 150 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

What to do with St Nicholas Catholic School

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

  • See how every tracked system in Pennsylvania compares on the same EPA violation measures. Pennsylvania systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

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