Brookline Retirement Village, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 20 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. 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.
About Brookline Retirement Village
Brookline Retirement Village serves about 150 people through 41 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4340001; phone on file: 717-436-2178. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 17.95 ppb from 37.95 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brookline Retirement Village is 37.95 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 37.95 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Brookline Retirement Village's 20 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
12 other systems share Juniata County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brookline Retirement Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mifflintown Muni Auth | 4,450 | 2.69 ppb |
| Thompsontown Muni Auth | 1,000 | - |
| Richfield Area Joint Auth | 1,000 | - |
| Port Royal Muni Auth | 950 | - |
| Mcalisterville Area Joint Auth | 850 | - |
| Orchard Hills Apts | 499 | - |
| Locust Grove Retirement Home | 177 | - |
| Groninger Farms Arch Rock | 175 | - |
| Aqua Pa Inc Meribah Water Co | 135 | - |
| Brookline Manor | 100 | - |
Next steps for Mifflintown, PA
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 Brookline Retirement Village 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.