Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 20 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2016). 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 Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys
Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys serves about 1,200 people through 291 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5030047; phone on file: 724-783-7609. 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 Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys is 20 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 20 ppb over 15 |
How Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys 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. Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys's 20 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Armstrong County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut | 8,000 | 0.67 ppb |
| Manor Twp Jt Muni Auth | 6,744 | 0.49 ppb |
| Buffalo Twp Mun Auth Freeport | 5,849 | 2.72 ppb |
| Pa American Water Kittanning | 4,499 | 3 ppb |
| Ford City Muni Water Works | 2,991 | - |
| Parks Twp Muni Auth | 2,049 | - |
| West Kittanning Muni Auth | 2,000 | - |
| E Armstrong Cnty Muni Auth | 1,875 | - |
| Gilpin Twp Muni Auth | 1,680 | - |
| Worthington West Franklin Jma | 1,500 | - |
Next steps for Numine, 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 Cowanshan Yatesboro Numine Sys 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.