New Freedom Boro Water Auth, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About New Freedom Boro Water Auth
New Freedom Boro Water Auth serves about 4,464 people through 2,041 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 York County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7670082; phone on file: 717-577-7442. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for New Freedom Boro Water Auth is 8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 8 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How New Freedom Boro 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. New Freedom Boro Water Auth's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
43 other systems share York County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Freedom Boro Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| York Water Co | 206,762 | 3 ppb |
| Hanover Muni Water Works | 40,900 | 2 ppb |
| Dover Twp Water Sys | 21,097 | 4.9 ppb |
| Red Lion Municipal Authority | 15,882 | 1 ppb |
| Dallastown Yoe Water Auth | 12,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Manchester Twp Auth | 9,960 | 2 ppb |
| Dillsburg Area Authority | 8,962 | 0 (not detected) |
| Veolia Newberry System | 6,480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stewartstown Boro Water Auth | 5,206 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shrewsbury Borough | 4,727 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for New Freedom, PA
Look up your address in New Freedom Boro Water Auth'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 New Freedom Boro Water Auth whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 5800 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.