Howlands Mobile Home Park, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Howlands Mobile Home Park at a glance
Howlands Mobile Home Park serves about 35 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: NY5330144; phone on file: 570-888-1073. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Howlands Mobile Home Park is 1.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 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. Howlands Mobile Home Park's 1.5 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Pennsylvania and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Tioga County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Howlands Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellsboro Municipal Authority | 8,225 | 0.99 ppb |
| Mansfield Borough Mun Auth | 4,100 | 1.02 ppb |
| Mansfield University | 3,000 | - |
| Elkland Boro Water Authority | 2,660 | - |
| Blossburg Municipal Authority | 1,650 | - |
| Westfield Borough Waterworks | 1,300 | - |
| Lawrenceville Boro Water Dept | 691 | - |
| Tioga Boro Municipal Authority | 615 | - |
| Knoxville Water Department | 590 | - |
| Osceola Twp Municipal Authorit | 400 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, PA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Howlands Mobile Home Park 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.