Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.02 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist
Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist serves about 4,500 people through 1,549 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 groundwater, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6610031; phone on file: 814-676-8812. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.02 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.15 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
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. Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist's 1.02 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Venango County
24 other systems share Venango County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oil City | 9,608 | 1.51 ppb |
| General Authority Of Franklin | 9,096 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandycreek Twp Waterworks | 2,417 | - |
| Cornplanter Township | 1,835 | - |
| Barkeyville Mun Authority | 1,600 | - |
| Polk Center | 1,058 | - |
| Sugarcreek Borough | 1,000 | - |
| Aqua Pa Emlenton | 915 | - |
| Pleasantville Borough Water | 846 | - |
| Clintonville Boro Wtp | 557 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Seneca, 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 Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.