Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam, 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.
Who runs the water here
Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam serves about 22,617 people through 10,419 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4110017; phone on file: 814-266-3146. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.71 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam is 0.71 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.71 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam 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. Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cambria County
35 other systems share Cambria County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Johnstown Wa Riverside | 49,500 | 5 ppb |
| Ebensburg Boro Muni Auth | 8,500 | 1.11 ppb |
| Portage Boro Muni Auth | 6,500 | 1 ppb |
| Northern Cambria Muni Water | 4,500 | 2 ppb |
| Southwestern Cambria Cnty Auth | 4,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jackson Twp Water Auth | 4,236 | 2.15 ppb |
| Glendale Valley Municipal Auth | 3,200 | - |
| Nanty Glo Water Auth | 3,152 | 2.66 ppb |
| East Taylor Muni Auth | 3,152 | - |
| Gallitzin Boro Water Auth | 3,130 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam'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 Highland S & W Auth Beaverdam 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.