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Community Water System · PWS PA6330007

Falls Creek Boro Mun Auth

Operator location Falls Creek, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 669 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,440 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,440
People served (this PWS)
669
EPA violations (this PWS)
113
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Falls Creek Boro Mun Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third

669 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,342 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Falls Creek Boro Mun Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (669), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,440 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,342 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#644 of 1,340
Population · PA
669
Total EPA violations on record
17%
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
687
County
Jefferson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
62
Monitoring Violations
497
Treatment Tech Violations
51

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 48 2021
TTHM MR 34 2020
TTHM MCL 34 2011
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 33 2020
Public Notice Other 31 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 28 2017
CARBON, TOTAL MR 23 2015
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 17 2017
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 11 2019
Xylenes, Total MR 10 2016
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 10 2016
Carbon tetrachloride MR 10 2016
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 10 2016
Trichloroethylene MR 10 2016
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 10 2016
Tetrachloroethylene MR 10 2016
CHLOROBENZENE MR 10 2016
Benzene MR 10 2016
Toluene MR 10 2016
Styrene MR 10 2016
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 10 2016
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 10 2016
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 10 2016
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 10 2016
Ethylbenzene MR 10 2016
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 10 2016
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 10 2016
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 10 2016
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 10 2016
Barium MR 9 2016

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Falls Creek Boro Mun Auth has 669 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (113 of 669), and it ranks #16,342 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)

669 Higher than most more violations than 97% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Falls Creek Boro Mun Auth

669 violations on record for PA6330007; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

669 violations · 1,440 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Falls Creek Boro Mun Auth

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater