Is PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY's water safe to drink?
PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 17,200 people get their water from it, across 8,718 connections.
PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY's record against the rest of the country
7 total violations and 1 health-based ones put PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,444 of 12,903.
Against the PA average
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1986-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY's record does not cover
Everything on this page is PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY'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 PA AMER WATER CO ELLWOOD CTY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,444th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.