Somerset Twp M A Friedens, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.2 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.
Somerset Twp M A Friedens at a glance
Somerset Twp M A Friedens serves about 1,374 people through 388 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 surface water, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4560057; phone on file: 814-445-5842. 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 Somerset Twp M A Friedens is 16.2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 16.2 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. Somerset Twp M A Friedens's 16.2 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Somerset County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Somerset Twp M A Friedens. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Windber Area Auth | 9,463 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conemaugh Twp Muni Auth | 7,800 | 4.4 ppb |
| Somerset Boro Muni Water Auth | 6,309 | 1.4 ppb |
| Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg | 3,800 | 1.3 ppb |
| Seven Springs Muni Auth | 3,000 | - |
| Boswell Boro Muni Auth | 2,900 | - |
| Meyersdale Muni Auth | 2,566 | - |
| Berlin Boro Muni Auth | 2,468 | - |
| Central City Water Auth | 1,984 | - |
| Jennerstown Muni Auth | 1,625 | - |
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 Somerset Twp M A Friedens 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.