Community Water System · PWS PA7280061
Silver Spring Water Assn
Operator location Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - 42% of 185 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 130 served per SDWIS.
- 130
- People served (this PWS)
- 185
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 77
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Silver Spring Water Assn standing, high SDWIS violation third
42% of 185 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 42% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Silver Spring Water Assn sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (185), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (130; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 42% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 185
- Total EPA violations on record
- 42%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 130
- 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
- 46
- County
- Franklin
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 77
- Monitoring Violations
- 45
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 77 | 2011 |
| Public Notice | Other | 44 | 2012 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 2007 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 2 | 2012 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1988 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Silver Spring Water Assn has 185 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 42% of this system's own violations are health-based (77 of 185), 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)
185 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Silver Spring Water Assn
77 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA7280061.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
185 violations · 130 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.
What to do with Silver Spring Water Assn
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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