MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY: EPA violation history, explained
MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 17,339, over 5,265 connections.
How this compares nationally
MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY has 43 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,960th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 54th percentile nationally.
How MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY's 2 is at or below 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 MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2008-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MEADVILLE AREA WATER 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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
This is what MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for MEADVILLE AREA WATER AUTHORITY - 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.