Wellsville Mobile Home Community, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.95 ppb (monitoring period 2017-2018). 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
Wellsville Mobile Home Community serves about 45 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Allegany County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: NY0200866; phone on file: 717-875-9482. 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 2017 (1.95 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wellsville Mobile Home Community is 7.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 1.95 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.95 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.2 ppb |
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. Wellsville Mobile Home Community's 1.95 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lancaster, 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 Wellsville Mobile Home Community 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.