Veolia Water, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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 Veolia Water
Veolia Water serves about 110,000 people through 37,142 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7220015; phone on file: 717-561-1103. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Water is 3.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Veolia Water 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 Water's 2.1 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Dauphin County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veolia Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Capital Region Water | 66,540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa Amer Water Co | 50,200 | 3 ppb |
| Veolia Middletown | 9,600 | 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 | - |
Next steps for Harrisburg, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Harrisburg, 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 Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.