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Community Water System · PWS PA7210010

US Army Garrison

Operator location Carlisle, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 124 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,700 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,700
People served (this PWS)
124
EPA violations (this PWS)
14
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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US Army Garrison standing, high SDWIS violation third

124 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 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,923 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

US Army Garrison sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (124), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,700 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,923 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#583 of 1,340
Population · PA
124
Total EPA violations on record
11%
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
Federal
Connections
353
County
Cumberland
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
96
Treatment Tech Violations
11

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 19 2025
TTHM MR 19 2025
Groundwater Rule MR 15 2024
Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) MR 7 2017
Public Notice Other 7 2019
Groundwater Rule TT 6 2016
Chlorine MR 5 2014
Lead and Copper Rule TT 5 2019
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2023
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2008
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2014
Radium-228 MR 2 2012
Radium-226 MR 2 2012
Nitrate MR 2 1994
Methoxychlor MR 1 1982
2,4,5-TP MR 1 1982
Endrin MR 1 1982
Cadmium MR 1 2021
Arsenic MR 1 2021
Selenium MR 1 2021
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2021
Fluoride MR 1 2021
Antimony, Total MR 1 2021
Barium MR 1 2021
Thallium, Total MR 1 2021
Chromium MR 1 2021
Nickel MR 1 2021
Mercury MR 1 2021
Toxaphene MR 1 1982

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

US Army Garrison has 124 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 124), and it ranks #14,923 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)

124 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 US Army Garrison

124 violations on record for PA7210010; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

124 violations · 1,700 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with US Army Garrison

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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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater