Franklin Twp Muni Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 21.07 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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.
Franklin Twp Muni Auth at a glance
Franklin Twp Muni Auth serves about 441 people through 127 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 groundwater, in Adams County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7010032; phone on file: 717-334-8847. 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 Franklin Twp Muni Auth is 21.07 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.07 ppb over 15 |
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. Franklin Twp Muni Auth's 21.07 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Adams County
29 other systems share Adams County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Franklin Twp Muni Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gettysburg Muni Auth | 12,425 | 2 ppb |
| Littlestown Boro | 7,300 | 3 ppb |
| New Oxford Munci Auth | 3,963 | 2 ppb |
| Lake Meade Muni Auth | 3,221 | - |
| Bonneauville Muni Water Auth | 2,730 | - |
| Biglerville Water Co | 2,501 | - |
| Fairfield Muni Auth | 2,150 | - |
| East Berlin Area Joint Auth | 1,750 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Lake Heritage | 1,648 | - |
| Arendtsville Muni Water Sys | 1,200 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Franklin Twp Muni 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.