Is EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 24,500 people through 8,607 service connections.
EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY ranks 3,951th by violation burden (69th percentile) - 97 violations total, 4 health-baseds.
Against the PA average
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's 4 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's record does not cover
Everything on this page is EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and EPHRATA AREA JOINT AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,951th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.