Community Water System · PWS PA5300004
Brave Water Auth
Operator location Brave, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 200 people served; 527 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 200
- People served (this PWS)
- 527
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 108
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Brave Water Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third
200 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 20% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Brave Water Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (527), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 20% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 527
- Total EPA violations on record
- 20%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 200
- 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
- 86
- County
- Greene
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 108
- Monitoring Violations
- 238
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 108 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MCL | 100 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 62 | 2017 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 59 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 48 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 38 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 30 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 27 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2001 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2016 |
| Cadmium | MR | 6 | 1990 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1980 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1982 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Brave Water Auth has 527 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 20% of this system's own violations are health-based (108 of 527), 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)
527 Higher than most more violations than 96% 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 Brave Water Auth
EPA SDWIS lists 200 people served and 86 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
527 violations · 200 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 Brave Water Auth
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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