Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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
Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth serves about 22,400 people through 9,200 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 groundwater, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3060038; phone on file: 610-929-4709. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
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. Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth's 1 ppb sits at the 33rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
71 other systems share Berks County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Area Water Authority | 95,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Penn District | 28,508 | 3 ppb |
| Paw Glen Alsace Div | 24,951 | 1 ppb |
| Kutztown Borough Water | 14,200 | 3 ppb |
| Shillington Muni Auth | 13,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Penn Boro Muni Auth | 10,400 | 3.4 ppb |
| Wyomissing Boro Water System | 8,500 | 1 ppb |
| Boyertown Muni Auth | 8,000 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wernersville Muni Water Auth | 7,920 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maidencreek Twp Water Auth | 7,505 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reading, 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 Muhlenberg Twp Muni 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.