Bellefonte Borough Water Auth

Water Quality Snapshot: Bellefonte Borough Water Auth

Bellefonte Borough Water Auth is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 9,500 residents in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (Centre County) through 3,436 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 1,031 total violations for this system , of which 8 (1%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 895 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Public Notice, recorded in 121 violations (Other). 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%).

Bellefonte Borough Water Auth's 1,031 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.