Huston Twp Muni Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 43.7 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.
Who runs the water here
Huston Twp Muni Auth serves about 960 people through 320 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6170024; phone on file: 814-637-5070. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Huston Twp Muni Auth's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Huston Twp Muni Auth is 43.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 43.7 ppb over 15 |
How Huston Twp Muni 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. Huston Twp Muni Auth's 43.7 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clearfield County
15 other systems share Clearfield County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Huston Twp Muni Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clearfield Municipal Auth | 14,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Houtzdale Municipal Authority | 8,410 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Dubois Water Depart | 7,794 | 3.1 ppb |
| Pike Twp Municipal Authority | 4,500 | 1.25 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Inc Treasure Lake Div | 4,155 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cooper Twp Municipal Auth | 3,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Irvona Municipal Authority | 1,980 | - |
| Beccaria Coalport Irvona M A | 1,875 | - |
| Sandy Township | 1,828 | - |
| Covington Karthaus Girard A A | 1,700 | - |
Next steps for Penfield, PA
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 Huston Twp Muni Auth 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.