Villas At Georgetown, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 98 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2016). 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.
Who runs the water here
Villas At Georgetown serves about 30 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7360184; phone on file: 570-629-1868. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Villas At Georgetown's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Villas At Georgetown is 98 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 98 ppb over 15 |
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. Villas At Georgetown's 98 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
92 other systems share Lancaster County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Villas At Georgetown. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lancaster | 120,000 | 7 ppb |
| Columbia Water Co | 25,200 | 1 ppb |
| Ephrata Area Joint Authority | 24,500 | 1.52 ppb |
| East Hempfield Water Auth | 20,988 | 8 ppb |
| Elizabethtown Area Water | 19,000 | 3 ppb |
| Mt Joy Boro Auth | 15,261 | 4 ppb |
| Lititz Boro | 9,397 | 7 ppb |
| Warwick Twp Lititz Sys | 8,561 | 1 ppb |
| New Holland Borough | 8,490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersville Univ | 7,950 | 3 ppb |
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 Villas At Georgetown whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1685 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.