Community Water System · PWS PA5020008
Cheswick Boro Water Dept
Operator location Cheswick, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 119 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,861 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,861
- People served (this PWS)
- 119
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 12
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cheswick Boro Water Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
119 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 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,183 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cheswick Boro Water Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (119), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,861 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,183 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #550 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 119
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- 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
- 915
- County
- Allegheny
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 94
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 12
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 12 | 2007 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 7 | 2025 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 7 | 1992 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Endrin | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2007 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cheswick Boro Water Dept has 119 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 119), and it ranks #14,183 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)
119 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Cheswick Boro Water Dept
119 violations on record for PA5020008; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
119 violations · 1,861 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).
What to do with Cheswick Boro Water Dept
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