Community Water System · PWS PA7360090
Lancaster Est
Operator location Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 304 people served; 79 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 304
- People served (this PWS)
- 79
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lancaster Est standing, high SDWIS violation third
304 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Lancaster Est sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (304; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 79
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 304
- 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
- 152
- County
- Lancaster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 14
- Monitoring Violations
- 50
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MCL | 14 | 1997 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 1996 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2016 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1994 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 3 | 1999 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2017 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 1985 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 2 | 1985 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 2 | 1985 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 1999 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1982 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lancaster Est has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 79), 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)
79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Lancaster Est
EPA SDWIS lists 304 people served and 152 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
79 violations · 304 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 Lancaster Est
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