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What EPA’s and Pennsylvania’s records show in this utility’s water: PFAS; nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
65 people
Connections
28
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Dallas, PA
County
Luzerne
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

18612

The short answer

4 results are above the health goal. The worst: PFOS, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from March 17, 2025 to May 27, 2026.

Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 2, 2020 to July 31, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: PFOS and PFOA were found, of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule; their results are below.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptAbove the health goal2.4 ppt highest, found in 1 of 4 samples. Details
PFOS4.0 pptAbove the health goal3.0 ppt highest, found in 2 of 4 samples. Details
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 4 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 4 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 4 samples
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in any of 4 samples
Results from Pennsylvania’s own PFAS monitoring, samples where water enters the pipes; each compound’s card has its four-quarter averages, the way limits are judged. The limits are EPA’s 2024 rule, with compliance due from 2029; EPA has since proposed changes to some of them, explained on each compound’s page. Pennsylvania’s own limits for PFOA and PFOS are in force now. PFBS has no limit of its own and counts only toward EPA’s Hazard Index, which TapBuff works out only from UCMR 5’s averages, so it isn’t given here.

About PFAS certifications

NSF’s PFAS claims are tested to below 20 ppt. EPA’s limit is 4.0 ppt, and EPA says no certification yet shows a filter reaching its levels.

Above the health goal4

PFOS

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

3.0ppt

Highest sample, March 17, 2025; found in 2 of 4

2026, one sample: 2.5 ppt

The highest sample was 3.0 ppt: below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029, but above its health goal of zero. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.5 ppt.

What handles it

PFOA

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.4ppt

Highest sample, March 17, 2025; found in 1 of 4

2026: not found

The highest sample was 2.4 ppt: below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029, but above its health goal of zero. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.6 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

3.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.9 ppb, in 2025: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.0 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppm

Highest sample; found in 5 of 6

2025: not found

The highest sample, in 2024, was 1.5 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.6 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
8 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • PFBS
  • PFHxS
  • PFNA

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: PFOS Reduction, PFOA Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: PFOS, PFOA, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Total PFAS Reduction; Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS); Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA); Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium

    For: PFOS, PFOA, Arsenic, Uranium

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Groundwater RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencyMarch 26, 2026—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 29 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Hillside Condominiums’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Pennsylvania’s results run from Jan. 2, 2020 to July 31, 2025; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 17, 2025 to May 27, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Hillside Condominiums’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Pennsylvania certifies.

The 3 labs Pennsylvania certifies closest to the area Hillside Condominiums serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • A E Kirby Memorial Health Center

    Wilkes-Barre, PA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (570) 822-4278

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Pittston

    Pittston, PA · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (570) 348-0775

  • Princeton Analytical Labs

    Dunmore, PA · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (570) 209-7916

Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory: Drinking water test kits from many county Extension offices, mailed back to the lab overnight with payment. Packages cover bacteria and basic chemistry, with add-ons for nitrate, metals, lead, and mining or gas drilling concerns. The standard package of bacteria, pH and total dissolved solids is $60, or $70 with nitrate; bacteria alone is $40, nitrate $15 and lead $25. Drinking Water Testing, Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Lab.

All 108 certified labs for Pennsylvania

Sources

PWSID PA2400142. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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