Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.11 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.
About Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford
Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford serves about 5,127 people through 2,263 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 Bedford County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4050002; phone on file: 814-285-7056. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.33 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford is 3.23 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.11 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.23 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.22 ppb |
How Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford 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. Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford's 1.11 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bedford County
24 other systems share Bedford County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Everett Boro Muni Auth | 2,048 | - |
| Waterside Loysburg Water Suppl | 1,724 | - |
| Saxton Muni Water Auth | 1,675 | - |
| Bedford Twp Muni Auth | 1,626 | - |
| Hyndman Boro Water Dept | 910 | - |
| Fishertown Water Assn | 801 | - |
| Snake Spring Township Ma | 750 | - |
| W Stclair Pleasantville Muni | 715 | - |
| New Enterprise Water Assn | 500 | - |
| St Clairsville Water Company | 392 | - |
Next steps for Bedford, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bedford, 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 Mun Auth Of Boro Of Bedford 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.