City Of Dubois Water Depart, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 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. 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
City Of Dubois Water Depart serves about 7,794 people through 4,306 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6170016; phone on file: 814-371-6885. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Dubois Water Depart is 3.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. City Of Dubois Water Depart's 3.1 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Pennsylvania and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Clearfield County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than City Of Dubois Water Depart. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clearfield Municipal Auth | 14,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Houtzdale Municipal Authority | 8,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pike Twp Municipal Authority | 4,500 | 1.25 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Inc Treasure Lake Div | 4,155 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cooper Twp Municipal Auth | 3,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Irvona Municipal Authority | 1,980 | - |
| Beccaria Coalport Irvona M A | 1,875 | - |
| Sandy Township | 1,828 | - |
| Covington Karthaus Girard A A | 1,700 | - |
| Brady Twp Water Association | 1,570 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dubois, 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 City Of Dubois Water Depart 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.