Community Water System · PWS PA6610029
Sugarcreek Water Co
Operator location Dubois, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 205 people served; 47 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 205
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sugarcreek Water Co standing, mid SDWIS violation third
205 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Sugarcreek Water Co lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (205; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 205
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 74
- County
- Venango
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 40
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 7 | 2024 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 5 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2007 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sugarcreek Water Co has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 47), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 Sugarcreek Water Co
EPA SDWIS lists 205 people served and 74 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
47 violations · 205 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Sugarcreek Water Co
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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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