Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut serves about 6,701 people through 2,767 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 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7360078; phone on file: 717-892-8634. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut 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. Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Lancaster County
92 other systems share Lancaster County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lancaster | 120,000 | 7 ppb |
| Columbia Water Co | 25,200 | 1 ppb |
| Ephrata Area Joint Authority | 24,500 | 1.52 ppb |
| East Hempfield Water Auth | 20,988 | 8 ppb |
| Elizabethtown Area Water | 19,000 | 3 ppb |
| Mt Joy Boro Auth | 15,261 | 4 ppb |
| Lititz Boro | 9,397 | 7 ppb |
| Warwick Twp Lititz Sys | 8,561 | 1 ppb |
| New Holland Borough | 8,490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersville Univ | 7,950 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Manheim Area Water & Sewer Aut 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.