What's in MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY's water?
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 11,043, over 4,331 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
219 total violations and 6 health-based ones put MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY at the 78th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,897 of 12,903.
How MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY's 6 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY is from 2026-01-02 (health-based: 2023-04-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY'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: Revised Total Coliform Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
Everything on this page is MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY'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 MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY SUNBURY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,897th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.