New Oxford Munci Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
New Oxford Munci Auth at a glance
New Oxford Munci Auth serves about 3,963 people through 2,513 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 Adams County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7010025; phone on file: 717-624-2380. 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 New Oxford Munci Auth is 7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Pennsylvania systems
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 Oxford Munci Auth's 2 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Adams County
29 other systems share Adams County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than New Oxford Munci Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gettysburg Muni Auth | 12,425 | 2 ppb |
| Littlestown Boro | 7,300 | 3 ppb |
| Lake Meade Muni Auth | 3,221 | - |
| Bonneauville Muni Water Auth | 2,730 | - |
| Biglerville Water Co | 2,501 | - |
| Fairfield Muni Auth | 2,150 | - |
| East Berlin Area Joint Auth | 1,750 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Lake Heritage | 1,648 | - |
| Arendtsville Muni Water Sys | 1,200 | - |
| York Springs Muni Water | 1,095 | - |
Next steps for New Oxford, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Oxford, 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 New Oxford Munci 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.