Community Water System · PWS PA6370032
Borough of Wampum Water Dept
Operator location Wampum, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 832 people served; 141 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 832
- People served (this PWS)
- 141
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Borough of Wampum Water Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
832 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #22,012 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Borough of Wampum Water Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (141), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (832; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #22,012 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #910 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 141
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- 342
- County
- Lawrence
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 110
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MR | 16 | 2007 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2005 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 9 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MRDL | 8 | 2005 |
| Public Notice | Other | 8 | 2006 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Nickel | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Endothall | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 1993 |
| Diquat | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Atrazine | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2006 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 4 | 2006 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2006 |
| Asbestos | MR | 4 | 2020 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Borough of Wampum Water Dept has 141 recorded EPA violations, 80% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 20% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 141), and it ranks #22,012 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)
141 Higher than most more violations than 80% 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 Borough of Wampum Water Dept
EPA SDWIS lists 832 people served and 342 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
141 violations · 832 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 Borough of Wampum Water Dept
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