Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Who runs the water here
Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg serves about 3,800 people through 920 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 Somerset County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4560046; phone on file: 814-445-5842. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg is 2.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.8 ppb |
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. Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg's 1.3 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Somerset County
32 other systems share Somerset County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg. 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 |
| 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 | - |
| Lincoln Twp Muni Auth | 1,400 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Somerset, 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 Somerset Twp Muni Auth Oakridg 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.