Blacklick Valley Muni Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2016). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Blacklick Valley Muni Auth at a glance
Blacklick Valley Muni Auth serves about 1,650 people through 763 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4110077; phone on file: 814-749-8763. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blacklick Valley Muni Auth is 17 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 17 ppb over 15 |
Against other Pennsylvania systems
Of the 516 Pennsylvania systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 2 ppb; 143 are over 15 ppb right now and 156 have gone over at some point. Blacklick Valley Muni Auth's 17 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
35 other systems share Cambria County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Blacklick Valley Muni Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Johnstown Wa Riverside | 49,500 | 5 ppb |
| Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam | 22,617 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ebensburg Boro Muni Auth | 8,500 | 1.11 ppb |
| Portage Boro Muni Auth | 6,500 | 1 ppb |
| Northern Cambria Muni Water | 4,500 | 2 ppb |
| Southwestern Cambria Cnty Auth | 4,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Twp Water Auth | 4,236 | 2.15 ppb |
| Glendale Valley Municipal Auth | 3,200 | - |
| Nanty Glo Water Auth | 3,152 | 2.66 ppb |
| East Taylor Muni Auth | 3,152 | - |
Your move
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Blacklick Valley Muni Auth whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.