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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA7220810

PA DOT Site 48 Mod Rest Area

Operator location Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - 13% of 32 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,000 served per SDWIS.

1,000
People served (this PWS)
32
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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PA DOT Site 48 Mod Rest Area standing, mid SDWIS violation third

13% of 32 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #19,754 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

PA DOT Site 48 Mod Rest Area lands in the middle third by violation volume (32), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,754 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#789 of 1,340
Population · PA
32
Total EPA violations on record
13%
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
1
County
Dauphin
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
14
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2014
Public Notice Other 7 2014
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2014
Nitrate MR 3 2007

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

PA DOT Site 48 Mod Rest Area has 32 recorded EPA violations, 44% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 55% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 32), and it ranks #19,754 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)

32 Lower than most fewer violations than 55% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on PA DOT Site 48 Mod Rest Area

4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA7220810.

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

Nationwide peers

32 violations · 1,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with PA DOT Site 48 Mod Rest Area

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
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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