Northern Tier Childrens Home, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 356.55 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Northern Tier Childrens Home at a glance
Northern Tier Childrens Home serves about 45 people through 9 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Potter County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6530001; phone on file: 814-334-5226. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (356.55 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Northern Tier Childrens Home is 356.55 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 356.55 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 356.55 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 45.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Northern Tier Childrens Home's 356.55 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Potter County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Northern Tier Childrens Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Coudersport Boro Authority | 3,166 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roulette Twp Water Authority | 1,300 | 24.5 ppb |
| Shinglehouse Boro Water Dept | 1,250 | - |
| Galeton Borough Authority | 1,200 | - |
| Charles Cole Memorial Hospital | 750 | - |
| Austin Borough Water | 700 | - |
| Ulysses Municipal Authority | 640 | - |
| Genesee Twp Water Authority | 450 | - |
Next steps for Harrison Valley, PA
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Northern Tier Childrens Home 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.