PA / Pottsville
PA · Tap water records
Pottsville tap water, in plain English
Here is what the EPA's own data shows about tap water in Pottsville. According to EPA SDWIS data retrieved June 2026, Pottsville is served by 6 active community water systems, together reported to serve about 36,085 people.
As of June 2026, EPA records show 109 violations across the community water system(s) serving Pottsville, going back to the earliest EPA record. 3 of these are classified by the EPA as health-based (a contaminant recorded above the limit the EPA tracks); the rest are monitoring or reporting violations. Each is listed by system below, with its status.
What the EPA has on record, by system
Schuylkill Co Mun Auth
31,850 served · surface water · PWSID PA3540038 - Health-based Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule: a health-based violation (a contaminant recorded above the limit the EPA tracks), recorded 3 times in December 2020. The EPA record for these does not include a measured level. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Chlorine: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 5 times between January 2023 and March 2023. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Arsenic: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times in January 2023. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Barium: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times in January 2023. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Cadmium: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times in January 2023. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring CYANIDE: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 6 times in January 2022. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2019 and July 2019. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring TTHM: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2019 and July 2019. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Revised Total Coliform Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded once in October 2016. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
Scma-Tremont
2,515 served · groundwater · PWSID PA3540046 As of June 2026, EPA records show no reported violations for this system in the period covered. This is not a guarantee about every substance, or about the water inside your home's plumbing.
Scma Pinebrook
735 served · groundwater · PWSID PA3540054 - Monitoring Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 3 times in July 2021. EPA records do not show all of these as returned to compliance.
- Monitoring Consumer Confidence Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 3 times between July 2003 and July 2006. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
Scma Orwigsburg Consecutive
500 served · groundwater · PWSID PA3540075 - Monitoring Consumer Confidence Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 5 times between July 2020 and October 2020. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
Scma Pine Grove Township
260 served · groundwater · PWSID PA3540062 - Monitoring Chlorine: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 4 times between January 2022 and February 2022. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Consumer Confidence Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 9 times between July 2004 and July 2017. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Groundwater Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 3 times between September 2015 and May 2016. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Endrin: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring BHC-GAMMA: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Methoxychlor: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Toxaphene: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Hexachlorocyclopentadiene: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring LASSO: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Heptachlor: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Heptachlor epoxide: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring HEXACHLOROBENZENE: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB): a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Chlordane: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between April 2015 and July 2015. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Public Notice: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 20 times in January 2010. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
Morea Citizens Water Company
225 served · groundwater · PWSID PA3540021 - Monitoring Chlorine: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded once in September 2024. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times in July 2023. EPA records do not show all of these as returned to compliance.
- Monitoring TTHM: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times in July 2023. EPA records do not show all of these as returned to compliance.
- Monitoring Combined Uranium: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 3 times in October 2022. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Consumer Confidence Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 5 times between July 2003 and October 2020. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
- Monitoring Groundwater Rule: a monitoring or reporting violation (a required test or report was late or missed — not a measured exceedance), recorded 2 times between September 2018 and April 2019. All have since returned to compliance, per EPA records.
What this means
A health-based violation means a contaminant was recorded above the limit the EPA tracks for it. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was late or missed — not that a contaminant was measured above a limit. “Returned to compliance” means the EPA recorded the issue as resolved.
This page summarizes the EPA's own records and does not assess whether your water is safe to drink. For the most current details, you can verify every record directly with the EPA, and contact your water system with questions.
Source: U.S. EPA Envirofacts SDWIS, retrieved June 2026. Records cover the EPA's full reporting history for these systems. Verify at EPA ECHO.