Community Water System · PWS PA4560036
Gray Area Watr Auth of Jen Twp
Operator location Gray, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 700 people served; 489 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 700
- People served (this PWS)
- 489
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Gray Area Watr Auth of Jen Twp standing, high SDWIS violation third
700 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,439 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Gray Area Watr Auth of Jen Twp sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (489), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (700; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #24,439 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,040 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 489
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 189
- County
- Somerset
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 442
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 13
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 40 | 2019 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 26 | 2007 |
| Public Notice | Other | 18 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MR | 14 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 13 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 11 | 2022 |
| Nitrite | MR | 11 | 2022 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 11 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 10 | 2005 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 10 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2023 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Endrin | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2013 |
| Diquat | MR | 5 | 2021 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 5 | 2021 |
| Simazine | MR | 5 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Gray Area Watr Auth of Jen Twp has 489 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 489), and it ranks #24,439 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)
489 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 Gray Area Watr Auth of Jen Twp
EPA SDWIS lists 700 people served and 189 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
489 violations · 700 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Gray Area Watr Auth of Jen Twp
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