Huntingdon Boro Water Dept, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.97 ppb (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. 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.
About Huntingdon Boro Water Dept
Huntingdon Boro Water Dept serves about 13,776 people through 2,976 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 Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4310012; phone on file: 814-643-3290. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.83 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Huntingdon Boro Water Dept is 4.37 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.97 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.83 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.32 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.37 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Huntingdon Boro Water Dept's 0.97 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Huntingdon County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Huntingdon Boro Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mt Union Municipal Auth | 5,801 | 1.04 ppb |
| St Correct Inst Huntingdon | 2,200 | - |
| Walker Twp Muni Auth | 1,450 | - |
| Orbisonia Rockhill Jt Mun Auth | 1,200 | - |
| Mill Creek Area Mun Auth | 1,108 | - |
| Alexandria Boro Water Auth | 815 | - |
| Wood Broad Top Wells Jmun Auth | 800 | - |
| Warriors Mark Gen Auth | 750 | - |
| Petersburg Bor Water Auth | 650 | - |
| Mapleton Muni Water Auth | 570 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Huntingdon, 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 Huntingdon Boro Water Dept 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.