Is PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON's water safe to drink?
PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 6,428, over 2,455 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON has 65 violations on record in total, 34 of thems health-based - ranking it 476th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 96th percentile nationally.
How PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON compares within PA
PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON's 34 health-based violations sit above the PA average of 5.5, across 475 systems statewide. 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 AMERICAN WATER STEELTON is from 2018-01-10 (health-based: 2018-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON'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; Revised Total Coliform Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; 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
PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON'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. This record - 34 health-based violations on file for PA AMERICAN WATER STEELTON - 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.