Blain Water Co, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 46.8 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). 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.
Blain Water Co at a glance
Blain Water Co serves about 321 people through 117 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Perry County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7500018; phone on file: 717-582-6154. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blain Water Co is 46.8 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 46.8 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. Blain Water Co's 46.8 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Perry County
23 other systems share Perry County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blain Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newport Boro Water Auth | 3,200 | 18.5 ppb |
| Duncannon Muni Water | 2,000 | 301 ppb |
| Bloomfield Boro Water Auth | 1,170 | - |
| Liverpool Muni Auth | 934 | - |
| Millerstown Boro Water | 700 | - |
| Creekview Farms Mhp | 450 | 15.5 ppb |
| Orchard Hills Mhp | 303 | 152.6 ppb |
| Loysville Youth Dev Ctr | 249 | - |
| Sunshine Hills Water Co | 248 | - |
| Skyview Gardens Apts | 234 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Blain Water Co 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.