Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA7360347
Springville Mennonite School
Operator location Ephrata, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 167 people served; 249 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 167
- People served (this PWS)
- 249
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Springville Mennonite School standing, high SDWIS violation third
167 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Springville Mennonite School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (249), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (167; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 249
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 167
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Lancaster
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 223
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 28 | 2010 |
| Nitrite | MR | 15 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2004 |
| Picloram | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| LASSO | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Simazine | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Atrazine | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 9 | 1995 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 8 | 2010 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 8 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 7 | 2017 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 5 | 2017 |
| Chlorine | MR | 4 | 2022 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Springville Mennonite School has 249 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 249), 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)
249 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Springville Mennonite School
EPA SDWIS lists 167 people served and 1 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
249 violations · 167 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 Springville Mennonite School
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