Community Water System · PWS PA4560012
Meyersdale Muni Auth
Operator location Meyersdale, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 224 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,566 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,566
- People served (this PWS)
- 224
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 27
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Meyersdale Muni Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third
224 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 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,697 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Meyersdale Muni Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (224), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,566 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,697 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #449 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 224
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- 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
- 1,389
- County
- Somerset
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 21
- Monitoring Violations
- 136
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 25 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 22 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 19 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 17 | 2023 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2023 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Endrin | MR | 5 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Chlordane | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 1991 |
| LASSO | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2003 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 2007 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1991 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Meyersdale Muni Auth has 224 recorded EPA violations, 87% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 13% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (27 of 224), and it ranks #11,697 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)
224 Higher than most more violations than 87% 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 Meyersdale Muni Auth
224 violations on record for PA4560012; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
224 violations · 2,566 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).
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