Community Water System · PWS PA6610010
Polk Center
Operator location Polk, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 756 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,058 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,058
- People served (this PWS)
- 756
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 51
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Polk Center standing, high SDWIS violation third
756 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 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,924 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Polk Center sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (756), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,058 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,924 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #742 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 756
- Total EPA violations on record
- 7%
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 9
- County
- Venango
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 46
- Monitoring Violations
- 654
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 97 | 2023 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 38 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 37 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MCL | 34 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 23 | 2025 |
| Arsenic | MR | 22 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 21 | 2025 |
| Fluoride | MR | 20 | 2023 |
| Cadmium | MR | 18 | 2023 |
| Barium | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| Chromium | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| Mercury | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| Selenium | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 16 | 2013 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| Nickel | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 13 | 2002 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 13 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2023 |
| LASSO | MR | 10 | 2023 |
| Chlordane | MR | 10 | 2023 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 10 | 2022 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 10 | 2023 |
| Simazine | MR | 9 | 2024 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 7 | 2002 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 7 | 2002 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 7 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Polk Center has 756 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (51 of 756), and it ranks #18,924 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)
756 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Polk Center
756 violations on record for PA6610010; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
756 violations · 1,058 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Polk Center
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