Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept, PA Water Quality
Is Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept's water safe to drink?
Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 24,400 people through 8,511 service connections.
Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept's record against the rest of the country
42 total violations and 12 health-based ones put Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept at the 88th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,582 of 12,903.
How Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept's 12 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept is from 2025-01-10 (health-based: 2016-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept'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 Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept - 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.