Community Water System · PWS PA5040086
Shippingport Boro Water Sys
Operator location Shippingport, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 222 people served; 368 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 222
- People served (this PWS)
- 368
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 69
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Shippingport Boro Water Sys standing, high SDWIS violation third
222 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Shippingport Boro Water Sys sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (368), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (222; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 368
- Total EPA violations on record
- 19%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 222
- 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
- 75
- County
- Beaver
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 67
- Monitoring Violations
- 274
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 113 | 2014 |
| TTHM | MCL | 53 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 18 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 17 | 2018 |
| Chlorine | MR | 15 | 2014 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2006 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 10 | 2019 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| Benzene | MR | 10 | 1991 |
| Public Notice | Other | 8 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2017 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Shippingport Boro Water Sys has 368 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (69 of 368), 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)
368 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Shippingport Boro Water Sys
EPA SDWIS lists 222 people served and 75 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
368 violations · 222 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 Shippingport Boro Water Sys
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