Is ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER's water safe to drink?
ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 19,000 people through 6,800 service connections.
ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER's record against the rest of the country
ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER has 120 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,691th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 64th percentile nationally.
Against the PA average
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER's 3 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2021-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER'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)
- 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 ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER's record does not cover
ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER'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. Between the utility's meter and ELIZABETHTOWN AREA WATER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,691th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.