Is CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS's water safe to drink?
CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 31,048, over 9,295 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
99 total violations and 12 health-based ones put CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS at the 88th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,546 of 12,903.
Against the PA average
PA's 475 covered systems average 5.5 health-based violations each; CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS carries 12, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2012-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS's record does not cover
CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 12 health-based violations on file for CHAMBERSBURG BORO WATER SYS - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.