Laurel Mountain Village, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 56.7 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. 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
Laurel Mountain Village serves about 100 people through 53 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4560054; phone on file: 814-233-4961. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurel Mountain Village is 56.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 56.7 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. Laurel Mountain Village's 56.7 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Somerset County
32 other systems share Somerset County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Laurel Mountain Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Windber Area Auth | 9,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conemaugh Twp Muni Auth | 7,800 | 4.4 ppb |
| Somerset Boro Muni Water Auth | 6,309 | 1.4 ppb |
| Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg | 3,800 | 1.3 ppb |
| Seven Springs Muni Auth | 3,000 | - |
| Boswell Boro Muni Auth | 2,900 | - |
| Meyersdale Muni Auth | 2,566 | - |
| Berlin Boro Muni Auth | 2,468 | - |
| Central City Water Auth | 1,984 | - |
| Jennerstown Muni Auth | 1,625 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Laurel Mountain Village 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.