Boro Of Waynesboro, PA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Boro Of Waynesboro serves about 13,200 people through 8,004 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7280032; phone on file: 717-762-2101. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.36 ppb from 8.36 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Boro Of Waynesboro is 16.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 8.36 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.44 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 16.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
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. Boro Of Waynesboro's 6 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Franklin County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Boro Of Waynesboro. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chambersburg Boro Water Sys | 31,048 | 4.7 ppb |
| Guilford Water Auth | 28,135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bear Valley Joint Auth | 12,589 | 3.89 ppb |
| Washington Twp Muni Auth | 6,134 | 1.84 ppb |
| Greencastle Area Water Auth | 5,500 | 5.21 ppb |
| Franklin System York Water | 4,400 | 2 ppb |
| Mercersburg Muni Water Auth | 2,350 | - |
| Mont Alto Municipal Authority | 1,705 | - |
| Antrim Township Municipal Auth | 1,149 | - |
| Zullinger Water System Wtma | 1,080 | - |
Next steps for Waynesboro, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Waynesboro, PA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Boro Of Waynesboro 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.