Mt Gretna Auth, PA
No lead results on file with EPA
Latest 90th-percentile lead: no result on file. The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. EPA's database has no Lead and Copper Rule results for this system. Without them there is nothing to go on, so a tap test is the only way to know.
About Mt Gretna Auth
Mt Gretna Auth serves about 485 people through 225 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 Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7380024; phone on file: 717-964-3231. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Lebanon County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lebanon Water Auth | 57,000 | 7.1 ppb |
| 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 | - |
Next steps for Mount Gretna, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mount Gretna, 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 Mt Gretna 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.