PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH: EPA violation history, explained
PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 686,000, over 215,173 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH ranks 6,517th by violation burden (49th percentile) - 10 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH compares within PA
PA's 475 covered systems average 5.5 health-based violations each; PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH is from 2017-12-12 (health-based: 2017-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; 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
PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH'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 PA AMER WATER CO-PITTSBURGH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,517th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.