Community Water System · PWS PA4190014
Benton Municipal Water Auth
Operator location Benton, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 269 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,333 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,333
- People served (this PWS)
- 269
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Benton Municipal Water Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third
269 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,954 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Benton Municipal Water Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (269), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,333 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,954 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #664 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 269
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- 494
- County
- Columbia
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 252
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 26 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 20 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 16 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2018 |
| Chlorine | MR | 11 | 2018 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 9 | 2019 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 9 | 2021 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 9 | 2021 |
| Endrin | MR | 9 | 2021 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 8 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 6 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1993 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 3 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Benton Municipal Water Auth has 269 recorded EPA violations, 89% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 11% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 269), and it ranks #16,954 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)
269 Higher than most more violations than 89% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Benton Municipal Water Auth
269 violations on record for PA4190014; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
269 violations · 1,333 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Benton Municipal Water Auth
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