Centerville Muni Water Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 23.67 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 Centerville Muni Water Auth
Centerville Muni Water Auth serves about 75 people through 45 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 surface water, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4050027; phone on file: 814-585-9629. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Centerville Muni Water Auth is 23.67 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 23.67 ppb over 15 |
How Centerville Muni Water Auth compares
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. Centerville Muni Water Auth's 23.67 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Bedford County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Centerville Muni Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford | 5,127 | 1.11 ppb |
| Everett Boro Muni Auth | 2,048 | - |
| Waterside Loysburg Water Suppl | 1,724 | - |
| Saxton Muni Water Auth | 1,675 | - |
| Bedford Twp Muni Auth | 1,626 | - |
| Hyndman Boro Water Dept | 910 | - |
| Fishertown Water Assn | 801 | - |
| Snake Spring Township Ma | 750 | - |
| W Stclair Pleasantville Muni | 715 | - |
| New Enterprise Water Assn | 500 | - |
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 Centerville Muni Water 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.