Community Water System · PWS PA7010036
Lake Meade Muni Auth
Operator location East Berlin, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 84 EPA violations; groundwater source; 3,221 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 3,221
- People served (this PWS)
- 84
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 18
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lake Meade Muni Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third
84 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 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,105 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lake Meade Muni Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (84), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,221 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,105 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #362 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 84
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- 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
- 1,109
- County
- Adams
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 18
- Monitoring Violations
- 51
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 18 | 2006 |
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2021 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 2 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1998 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Nickel | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lake Meade Muni Auth has 84 recorded EPA violations, 69% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 84), and it ranks #10,105 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)
84 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Lake Meade Muni Auth
84 violations on record for PA7010036; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
84 violations · 3,221 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 Lake Meade Muni Auth
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