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Wellsboro Municipal Authority

Serves Wellsboro, Tioga County, PA · 8,225 people served

Federal records show no health-based violations and 20 monitoring/reporting issues for Wellsboro Municipal Authority in the last ten years.

  • PA2590042
  • WELLSBORO
  • PA
  • 8,225 served

System profile

Source water Surface water
ZIP 16901
EPA system ID PA2590042

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
0
Resolved
0
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
20

Key facts

  • Wellsboro Municipal Authority draws water from 6 wells and 4 surface water intakes.
  • Most recent enforcement action: boil water order by Pennsylvania, January 2011.
  • Record on file since 1980, with 9 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 1,669 unknown out of 1,669 service lines.

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Health-based violations

Since October 2016

Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.

None since October 2016.

Monitoring and reporting issues

Since October 2016

Missed tests or reports, not contaminants found above a limit.

Issue Start date Status
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Oct 1, 2024 Resolved
Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Monitoring and reporting
 Jul 1, 2024 Resolved
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring violation
 Aug 1, 2023 Resolved
1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2023 Resolved
Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2023 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Oct 1, 2022 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Monitoring and reporting
 Aug 1, 2022 Resolved
Chlorine
Monitoring and reporting
 Aug 1, 2022 Resolved
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2022 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Oct 1, 2021 Resolved
Mercury
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2020 Resolved
Radium-228
Monitoring and reporting
 Oct 1, 2017 Resolved
Radium-226
Monitoring and reporting
 Oct 1, 2017 Resolved
Combined Uranium
Monitoring and reporting
 Oct 1, 2017 Resolved
2,3,7,8-TCDD
Monitoring and reporting
 Jan 1, 2017 Resolved
Public Notice
OTHER
 Oct 11, 2015 Resolved
Public Notice
OTHER
 Jan 10, 2015 Resolved
Public Notice
OTHER
 Dec 11, 2014 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2014 Resolved
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
 Jul 1, 2013 Resolved

Full record since 1980

EPA's records for Wellsboro Municipal Authority go back to 1980. Before October 19, 2016 they list 9 health-based violations (9 resolved) and 173 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1980s 0 3
1990s 1 8
2000s 1 65
2010 to October 18, 2016 7 97
October 19, 2016 to 2019 0 4
2020s 0 11

Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, began August 2015, Resolved.

Show all 9 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
Contaminant Start date Status
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Aug 1, 2015 Resolved
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Nov 1, 2014 Resolved
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Oct 1, 2014 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Jun 1, 2011 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 May 1, 2011 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Oct 1, 2010 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Aug 1, 2010 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Mar 1, 2004 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Oct 1, 1992 Resolved

Enforcement actions

Pennsylvania regulators took 5 formal enforcement actions against Wellsboro Municipal Authority and issued 3 boil water orders between 2004 and 2011, filed as 11 records in EPA's data. The most recent was a boil water order in January 2011.

Date By Action Violations covered
Jan 20, 2011 Pennsylvania Boil water order 2 violations: Surface Water Treatment Rule
Dec 20, 2010 Pennsylvania Signed compliance agreement 2 violations (1 health-based): Public Notice, Surface Water Treatment Rule
Dec 20, 2010 Pennsylvania Boil water order 2 violations (1 health-based): Public Notice, Surface Water Treatment Rule
Dec 20, 2010 Pennsylvania Administrative penalty 2 violations (1 health-based): Public Notice, Surface Water Treatment Rule
Nov 22, 2010 Pennsylvania Signed compliance agreement 3 violations (2 health-based): Surface Water Treatment Rule, Public Notice
Nov 22, 2010 Pennsylvania Boil water order 2 violations (2 health-based): Surface Water Treatment Rule
Aug 10, 2005 Pennsylvania Consent decree or court judgment 2 violations: Surface Water Treatment Rule, Chlorine
Jul 27, 2004 Pennsylvania Criminal case filed 1 violation: Nitrate

Where the water comes from

Wellsboro Municipal Authority draws water from 6 wells and 4 surface water intakes. 2 smaller public systems such as schools, businesses or campgrounds buy water from Wellsboro Municipal Authority.

Annual water quality report

Wellsboro Municipal Authority must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.

Where the state allows it, systems serving fewer than 10,000 people may publish the report in a local newspaper or news site instead of mailing it, and must provide a copy on request.

Find a posted report with EPA's Consumer Confidence Report search

Testing your own water

To test the water at your tap, or a private well this record does not cover, use a laboratory certified for drinking water by Pennsylvania.

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