Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA4340314
Zook Lyter Cottages
Operator location Mexico, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 42 people served; 354 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 42
- People served (this PWS)
- 354
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 35
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Zook Lyter Cottages standing, high SDWIS violation third
42 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Zook Lyter Cottages sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (354), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (42; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 354
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 42
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 7
- County
- Juniata
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 240
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 31
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 91 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 68 | 2022 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 60 | 2023 |
| Nitrite | MR | 37 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 33 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 28 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 10 | 2020 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 4 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 3 | 2012 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Zook Lyter Cottages has 354 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (35 of 354), 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)
354 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Zook Lyter Cottages
EPA SDWIS lists 42 people served and 7 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
354 violations · 42 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 Zook Lyter Cottages
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