Oakland Borough Water Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 26.7 ppb (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. 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.
About Oakland Borough Water Auth
Oakland Borough Water Auth serves about 563 people through 216 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2580025; phone on file: 570-854-1897. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Oakland Borough Water Auth's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oakland Borough Water Auth is 26.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 26.7 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. Oakland Borough Water Auth's 26.7 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Susquehanna County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oakland Borough Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa Amer Water Co Susquehanna | 4,230 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa Amer Water Co Forest City | 3,188 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Montrose | 1,890 | - |
| New Milford Municipal Auth | 979 | - |
| Village Of Four Seasons | 325 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Thompson | 225 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Hop Bottom | 174 | - |
| Tiffany Pines | 150 | - |
| Harford Muni Auth Water System | 100 | - |
| Elk Meadows | 96 | - |
Your move
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 Oakland Borough Water Auth whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1420 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.