What's in EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY's water?
EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,300 people through 1,307 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY has 284 violations on record in total, 32 of thems health-based - ranking it 511th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 96th percentile nationally.
Against the PA average
PA's 475 covered systems average 5.5 health-based violations each; EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY carries 32, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2019-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
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 EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY's record does not cover
EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY'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 EMPORIUM WATER COMPANY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 511th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.