Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA5630313
Avella Area School District
Operator location Avella, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 850 people served; 520 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 850
- People served (this PWS)
- 520
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Avella Area School District standing, high SDWIS violation third
850 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #21,815 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Avella Area School District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (520), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (850; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,815 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #896 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 520
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 425
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Notice | Other | 78 | 2021 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Styrene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Toluene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| Benzene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 10 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2005 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 3 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Avella Area School District has 520 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 520), and it ranks #21,815 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)
520 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 Avella Area School District
EPA SDWIS lists 850 people served and 2 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
520 violations · 850 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 Avella Area School District
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