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Community Water System · PWS PA5100033

Evans City Borough

Operator location Evans City, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 702 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,990 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,990
People served (this PWS)
702
EPA violations (this PWS)
21
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Evans City Borough standing, high SDWIS violation third

702 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 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,721 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Evans City Borough sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (702), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,990 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,721 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#532 of 1,340
Population · PA
702
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
874
County
Butler
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
19
Monitoring Violations
644
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 100 2018
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 30 2005
Chlorine MR 28 2018
CARBON, TOTAL MR 27 2008
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 15 2004
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 14 2006
1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE MR 14 1995
ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE MR 14 1995
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 13 2012
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 12 2021
Public Notice Other 10 2012
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 2006
TTHM MR 10 2021
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 9 2004
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 9 2004
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 9 2004
Carbon tetrachloride MR 9 2004
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 9 2004
Tetrachloroethylene MR 9 2004
CHLOROBENZENE MR 9 2004
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2004
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 9 2004
Trichloroethylene MR 9 2004
Benzene MR 9 2004
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 9 2004
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 9 2004
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 9 2004
Ethylbenzene MR 9 2004
Styrene MR 9 2004
Toluene MR 9 2004

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Evans City Borough has 702 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (21 of 702), and it ranks #13,721 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)

702 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Evans City Borough

702 violations on record for PA5100033; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

702 violations · 1,990 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.

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Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

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What to do with Evans City Borough

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater