Haines Woodward Municipal Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16 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.
Haines Woodward Municipal Auth at a glance
Haines Woodward Municipal Auth serves about 140 people through 78 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 Centre County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4140094; phone on file: 814-571-0159. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Haines Woodward Municipal Auth's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Haines Woodward Municipal Auth is 16 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 16 ppb over 15 |
How Haines Woodward Municipal Auth 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. Haines Woodward Municipal Auth's 16 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
42 other systems share Centre County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Haines Woodward Municipal Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| State College Boro Water Auth | 72,000 | 3.7 ppb |
| Penn State Univ | 37,000 | 10.8 ppb |
| Paw Philipsburg | 20,865 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bellefonte Borough Water Auth | 9,500 | 4.62 ppb |
| College Twp Water Authority | 6,000 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mountaintop Reg Water Auth | 3,456 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Twp Water Authority | 3,300 | 2.9 ppb |
| Walker Twp Water Assn | 3,250 | - |
| State Corr Inst Benner Twp | 2,850 | 2.69 ppb |
| Milesburg Borough Water Auth | 2,750 | - |
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 Haines Woodward Municipal Auth whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3524 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.