Community Water System · PWS PA6620031
Sheffield Twp Municipal Auth
Operator location Sheffield, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 111 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,075 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,075
- People served (this PWS)
- 111
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sheffield Twp Municipal Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third
111 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 #18,809 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Sheffield Twp Municipal Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (111), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,075 (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.
- #18,809 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #739 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 111
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 684
- County
- Warren
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 87
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 20 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 10 | 2014 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 8 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 1986 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 1986 |
| Nitrite | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sheffield Twp Municipal Auth has 111 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 111), and it ranks #18,809 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)
111 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% 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 Sheffield Twp Municipal Auth
111 violations on record for PA6620031; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
111 violations · 1,075 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 Sheffield Twp Municipal Auth
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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