LIGONIER TWP MUNI AUTH

Water Quality Snapshot: LIGONIER TWP MUNI AUTH

LIGONIER TWP MUNI AUTH is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 3,293 residents in LIGONIER, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County) through 1,757 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 538 total violations for this system , of which 15 (3%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 442 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Public Notice, recorded in 72 violations (Other). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Pennsylvania, EPA tracks 7,701 public water systems serving 12,630,061 people, with 1,159,868 cumulative violations and 68,517 health-based violations on record. About 97% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 150.6 violations. LIGONIER TWP MUNI AUTH's 538 violations sit above the Pennsylvania average. Statewide, 224 of 389 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (57.6%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.