Veolia Middletown, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
Veolia Middletown at a glance
Veolia Middletown serves about 9,600 people through 2,790 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 Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7220038; phone on file: 717-948-3055. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Veolia Middletown's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Middletown is 3.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.9 ppb |
How Veolia Middletown 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. Veolia Middletown's 3 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
24 other systems share Dauphin County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Veolia Middletown. 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 |
| Pa American Water Steelton | 6,428 | 1.7 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; Middletown, 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 Veolia Middletown 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.