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Strasburg Muni Water Auth

Operator location Strasburg, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 980 EPA violations; groundwater source; 3,100 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

3,100
People served (this PWS)
980
EPA violations (this PWS)
26
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Strasburg Muni Water Auth standing, high SDWIS violation third

980 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 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,388 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Strasburg Muni Water Auth sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (980), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,100 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,388 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#391 of 1,340
Population · PA
980
Total EPA violations on record
3%
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
1,380
County
Lancaster
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
26
Monitoring Violations
943
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MR 38 2018
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 36 2012
Xylenes, Total MR 36 2012
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 36 2012
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 36 2012
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 36 2012
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 36 2012
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 36 2012
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 36 2012
Tetrachloroethylene MR 36 2012
Toluene MR 36 2012
Ethylbenzene MR 36 2012
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 36 2012
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 36 2012
Trichloroethylene MR 36 2012
CHLOROBENZENE MR 36 2012
Benzene MR 36 2012
Styrene MR 36 2012
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 36 2012
Carbon tetrachloride MR 36 2012
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 36 2012
Nitrite MR 32 2018
Radium-228 MR 29 2017
Radium-226 MR 28 2017
Coliform (TCR) MCL 26 2012
Combined Uranium MR 18 2011
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 16 2011
2,4-D MR 15 2012
Carbofuran MR 14 2012
Bromate MR 8 2023

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Strasburg Muni Water Auth has 980 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 980), and it ranks #10,388 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)

980 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Strasburg Muni Water Auth

980 violations on record for PA7360118; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

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

Nationwide peers

980 violations · 3,100 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.

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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 Strasburg Muni Water Auth

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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