Lebanon Water Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Lebanon Water Auth serves about 57,000 people through 20,217 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 Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7380010; phone on file: 717-865-2191. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.38 ppb from 2.72 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lebanon Water Auth is 7.49 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.72 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.75 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.49 ppb |
How Lebanon Water 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. Lebanon Water Auth's 7.1 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lebanon County
27 other systems share Lebanon County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lebanon Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Myerstown Water Auth | 9,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Borough Of Cornwall | 3,343 | 2 ppb |
| Fort Indiantown Gap | 3,100 | - |
| Newmanstown Water Auth | 2,335 | - |
| Richland Boro Water Supply | 1,700 | - |
| Fredericksburg Water Auth | 1,200 | - |
| Heidelberg Twp Muni Auth | 975 | - |
| West Cornwall Township Ma | 900 | - |
| West Lebanon Twp Water Supply | 780 | - |
| Palm City Park | 490 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lebanon, 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 Lebanon Water 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.