Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat Auth, PA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat Auth
Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat Auth serves about 6,600 people through 2,637 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4410156; phone on file: 814-594-1790. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.92 ppb from 6.92 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat Auth is 23.14 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.92 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.01 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.14 ppb |
| 2016 | 23.14 ppb over 15 |
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. Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat Auth's 3 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Lycoming County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Williamsport Mun Water Auth | 51,000 | 2 ppb |
| Montoursville Water Company | 4,983 | 1.08 ppb |
| Muncy Borough Water Company | 2,900 | 890 ppb |
| Hughesville Borough Water Auth | 2,800 | 29.6 ppb |
| Montgomery Water Authority | 2,700 | - |
| Muncy State Correctional Inst | 2,050 | - |
| Lcwsa Limestone Water | 825 | - |
| Lcwsa Village Water | 598 | - |
| Lcwsa Halls Station | 518 | - |
| Heatherbrooke Estates | 410 | - |
Next steps for Jersey Shore, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jersey Shore, 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 Jersey Shore Area Jnt Wat 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.