Cherry Run Mhp, PA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.

Who runs the water here

Cherry Run Mhp serves about 135 people through 52 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Berkeley County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: WV3300229; phone on file: 717-597-5829. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Every lead result on file

Against the period ending 2019 (1.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherry Run Mhp is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

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. Cherry Run Mhp's 2 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Green Castle, 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 Cherry Run Mhp 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.