General Authority Of Franklin, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
General Authority Of Franklin at a glance
General Authority Of Franklin serves about 9,096 people through 4,260 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 groundwater, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6610020; phone on file: 724-372-2150. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
General Authority Of Franklin's lead record
That is down 1.38 ppb from 1.38 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for General Authority Of Franklin is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.38 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
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. General Authority Of Franklin's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Venango County
24 other systems share Venango County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than General Authority Of Franklin. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oil City | 9,608 | 1.51 ppb |
| Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist | 4,500 | 1.02 ppb |
| Sandycreek Twp Waterworks | 2,417 | - |
| Cornplanter Township | 1,835 | - |
| Barkeyville Mun Authority | 1,600 | - |
| Polk Center | 1,058 | - |
| Sugarcreek Borough | 1,000 | - |
| Aqua Pa Emlenton | 915 | - |
| Pleasantville Borough Water | 846 | - |
| Clintonville Boro Wtp | 557 | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in General Authority Of Franklin's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask General Authority Of Franklin 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.