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Fox Chapel Auth

Serves Fox Chapel, Allegheny County, PA · 18,500 people served

Federal records show no health-based violations and no monitoring or reporting issues for Fox Chapel Auth in the last ten years.

  • PA5020040
  • PITTSBURGH
  • PA
  • 18,500 served

System profile

Source water Purchased surface water
ZIP 15238
EPA system ID PA5020040

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

Key facts

  • Fox Chapel Auth buys its water from Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Auth.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: consent decree or court judgment by Pennsylvania, November 2005.
  • Record on file since 1992, with 0 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 16 lead and 56 unknown out of 5,501 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, and no monitoring or reporting violations either.

Full record since 1992

EPA's records for Fox Chapel Auth go back to 1992. Before October 19, 2016 they list no health-based violations and 9 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1990s 0 1
2000s 0 6
2010 to October 18, 2016 0 2

Enforcement actions

Pennsylvania regulators took 3 formal enforcement actions against Fox Chapel Auth between 2004 and 2005. The most recent was a consent decree or court judgment in November 2005.

Date By Action Violations covered
Nov 15, 2005 Pennsylvania Consent decree or court judgment 2 violations: Haloacetic Acids (HAA5), Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Oct 26, 2004 Pennsylvania Consent decree or court judgment 1 violation: Consumer Confidence Rule
Feb 20, 2004 Pennsylvania Consent decree or court judgment 3 violations: Surface Water Treatment Rule, Chlorine, Total Coliform

Where the water comes from

Fox Chapel Auth buys its water from Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Auth. It lists no wells or intakes of its own. It also has emergency connections to Harmar Twp Muni Auth and Hampton Shaler Water Authority. 3 other community water systems buy water from Fox Chapel Auth. 1 other public water system has an emergency connection to Fox Chapel Auth.

Buys water from

Emergency or part-time connections to

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

Fox Chapel Auth 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.

Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.

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Testing your own water

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