Quincy Twp Water System, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 94.5 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2018). 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.
Quincy Twp Water System at a glance
Quincy Twp Water System serves about 530 people through 265 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 Franklin County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7280074; phone on file: 717-762-5679. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Quincy Twp Water System is 94.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 94.5 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. Quincy Twp Water System's 94.5 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
29 other systems share Franklin County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Quincy Twp Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chambersburg Boro Water Sys | 31,048 | 4.7 ppb |
| Guilford Water Auth | 28,135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Boro Of Waynesboro | 13,200 | 6 ppb |
| Bear Valley Joint Auth | 12,589 | 3.89 ppb |
| Washington Twp Muni Auth | 6,134 | 1.84 ppb |
| Greencastle Area Water Auth | 5,500 | 5.21 ppb |
| Franklin System York Water | 4,400 | 2 ppb |
| Mercersburg Muni Water Auth | 2,350 | - |
| Mont Alto Municipal Authority | 1,705 | - |
| Antrim Township Municipal Auth | 1,149 | - |
Next steps for Waynesboro, 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 Quincy Twp Water System 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.