Community Water System · PWS PA4550028
Penn Township Municipal Auth
Operator location Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania - 0% of 66 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 672 served per SDWIS.
- 672
- People served (this PWS)
- 66
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Penn Township Municipal Auth standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 66 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #24,852 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Penn Township Municipal Auth lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (672; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #24,852 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,061 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 66
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 292
- County
- Snyder
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 59
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2016 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2016 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2000 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Penn Township Municipal Auth has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 66), and it ranks #24,852 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)
66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Penn Township Municipal Auth
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA4550028.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
66 violations · 672 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Penn Township Municipal Auth
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