Ridgway Borough Water System

Water Quality Snapshot: Ridgway Borough Water System

Ridgway Borough Water System is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 4,700 residents in Ridgway, Pennsylvania (Elk County) through 1,962 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 98 total violations for this system , of which 0 (0%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 96 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is CARBON, TOTAL, recorded in 21 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

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. Statewide, 224 of 389 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (57.6%).

Ridgway Borough Water System's 98 violations sit below the Pennsylvania average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.