Community Water System · PWS PA4410171
Ralston Area Joint Authority
Operator location Ralston, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 400 people served; 433 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 400
- People served (this PWS)
- 433
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ralston Area Joint Authority standing, high SDWIS violation third
400 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Ralston Area Joint Authority sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (433), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (400; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 433
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 400
- 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
- 119
- County
- Lycoming
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 402
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 9
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 31 | 2019 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 19 | 2022 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 19 | 2024 |
| Selenium | MR | 14 | 2024 |
| Arsenic | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Cadmium | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Chromium | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Mercury | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Nickel | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Barium | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Fluoride | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 12 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 11 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 9 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2007 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 2009 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ralston Area Joint Authority has 433 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 433), 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)
433 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Ralston Area Joint Authority
EPA SDWIS lists 400 people served and 119 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
433 violations · 400 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 Ralston Area Joint Authority
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