Crossroads Mhp, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 21 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). 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.
Crossroads Mhp at a glance
Crossroads Mhp serves about 30 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3480043; phone on file: 484-221-2278. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Crossroads Mhp's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crossroads Mhp is 21 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 21 ppb over 15 |
How Crossroads Mhp 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. Crossroads Mhp's 21 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Northampton County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Crossroads Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bethlehem | 117,259 | 0 (not detected) |
| Easton Area Water System | 96,867 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northampton Boro Muni Auth | 40,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pawc Blue Mountain | 23,763 | 5 ppb |
| Pawc Bangor | 9,008 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hellertown Borough Authority | 5,800 | 2 ppb |
| Lower Saucon Authority | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walnutport Authority | 3,000 | - |
| Bath Municipal Water Works | 2,680 | - |
| Pawc Westgate | 2,668 | - |
Next steps for New Tripoli, 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 Crossroads 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.