Community Water System · PWS PA5630068
Donegal Township
Operator location West Alexander, Pennsylvania - 28% of 372 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 820 served per SDWIS.
- 820
- People served (this PWS)
- 372
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 106
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Donegal Township standing, high SDWIS violation third
28% of 372 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #22,162 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Donegal Township sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (372), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (820; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,162 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #918 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 372
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- 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
- 310
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 99
- Monitoring Violations
- 217
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 97 | 2017 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 72 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 70 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 28 | 2025 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 22 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 21 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 17 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2008 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 7 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 6 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 2 | 2013 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Donegal Township has 372 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (106 of 372), and it ranks #22,162 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)
372 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
Health-based violations on Donegal Township
106 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA5630068.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
372 violations · 820 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 Donegal Township
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Pennsylvania compares on the same EPA violation measures. Pennsylvania systems
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