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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS PA7360521

Swift Middle Sch

Operator location Quarryville, Pennsylvania - 23% of 61 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,200 served per SDWIS.

1,200
People served (this PWS)
61
EPA violations (this PWS)
14
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Swift Middle Sch standing, mid SDWIS violation third

23% of 61 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 23% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,943 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Swift Middle Sch lands in the middle third by violation volume (61), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,200 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 23% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,943 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#703 of 1,340
Population · PA
61
Total EPA violations on record
23%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Public/Private
Connections
1
County
Lancaster
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
11
Monitoring Violations
34
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MCL 9 2018
Public Notice Other 8 2019
TTHM MR 6 2025
2,3,7,8-TCDD MR 5 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2006
Chlorine MR 3 2017
Revised Total Coliform Rule Other 3 2016
Lead and Copper Rule TT 3 2019
Nitrate MR 3 1999
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2009
E. COLI MR 2 2016
Lead and Copper Rule MR 2 1993
Nickel MR 2 1994
Antimony, Total MR 2 1994
Thallium, Total MR 2 1994
Beryllium, Total MR 2 1994
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 1 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Swift Middle Sch has 61 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 23% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 61), and it ranks #17,943 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)

61 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Swift Middle Sch

14 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for PA7360521.

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

Nationwide peers

61 violations · 1,200 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Swift Middle Sch

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