Orchard Hills Mhp, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 152.6 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). 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.
Orchard Hills Mhp at a glance
Orchard Hills Mhp serves about 303 people through 176 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Perry County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7500010; phone on file: 610-286-0490. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Orchard Hills Mhp's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orchard Hills Mhp is 152.6 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 152.6 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Orchard Hills Mhp's 152.6 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Perry County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Orchard Hills Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Newport Boro Water Auth | 3,200 | 18.5 ppb |
| Duncannon Muni Water | 2,000 | 301 ppb |
| Bloomfield Boro Water Auth | 1,170 | - |
| Liverpool Muni Auth | 934 | - |
| Millerstown Boro Water | 700 | - |
| Creekview Farms Mhp | 450 | 15.5 ppb |
| Blain Water Co | 321 | 46.8 ppb |
| Loysville Youth Dev Ctr | 249 | - |
| Sunshine Hills Water Co | 248 | - |
| Skyview Gardens Apts | 234 | - |
Next steps for Morgantown, 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 Orchard Hills Mhp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.