Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 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.
Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth at a glance
Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth serves about 4,076 people through 1,603 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 York County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7670097; phone on file: 717-252-3711. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth's lead record
That is up 1.1 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth is 3.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.7 ppb |
How Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth 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. Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth's 3.9 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
43 other systems share York County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| York Water Co | 206,762 | 3 ppb |
| Hanover Muni Water Works | 40,900 | 2 ppb |
| Dover Twp Water Sys | 21,097 | 4.9 ppb |
| Red Lion Municipal Authority | 15,882 | 1 ppb |
| Dallastown Yoe Water Auth | 12,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Manchester Twp Auth | 9,960 | 2 ppb |
| Dillsburg Area Authority | 8,962 | 0 (not detected) |
| Veolia Newberry System | 6,480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stewartstown Boro Water Auth | 5,206 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shrewsbury Borough | 4,727 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Wrightsville, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wrightsville, 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 Wrightsville Boro Muni Auth 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.