Pa American Water Steelton, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Pa American Water Steelton serves about 6,428 people through 2,455 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 Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7220036; phone on file: 717-914-9030. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pa American Water Steelton's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pa American Water Steelton is 3.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 ppb |
How Pa American Water Steelton 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. Pa American Water Steelton's 1.7 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Dauphin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa American Water Steelton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Water | 110,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Capital Region Water | 66,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa Amer Water Co | 50,200 | 3 ppb |
| Veolia Middletown | 9,600 | 3 ppb |
| Millersburg Water Auth | 4,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lykens Boro Auth | 3,220 | - |
| Elizabethville Area Auth | 2,700 | - |
| Williamstown Boro Auth | 2,390 | - |
| Halifax Area Water & Sewer Aut | 2,278 | - |
| Royalton Boro | 1,083 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hummelstown, 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 Pa American Water Steelton 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.