LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION: EPA violation history, explained
LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 118,000, over 33,498 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
16 total violations and 1 health-based ones put LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION at the 39th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,922 of 12,903.
How LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION is from 2024-01-09 (health-based: 1995-01-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 this data is and is not
LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION'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 LCA ALLENTOWN DIVISION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,922th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.