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Bloomfield Boro Water Auth

What EPA’s and Pennsylvania’s records show in this utility’s water: PFAS; nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,170 people
Connections
452
Water source
Groundwater influenced by surface water
Based in
New Bloomfield, PA
County
Perry
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

17068

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the action level. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from Feb. 22, 2024 to Aug. 27, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 1996.

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 5, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: PFOA, PFHxS and PFBS were found, of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule; their results are below.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptAbove the health goal0.81 ppt highest, found in 2 of 16 samples. Details
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 16 samples
PFHxS10 pptBelow EPA’s limits1.9 ppt highest, found in 2 of 4 samples. Details
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 4 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 4 samples
PFBSIndex onlyBelow EPA’s limits1.2 ppt highest, found in 2 of 4 samples. Details
Results from Pennsylvania’s own PFAS monitoring, samples where water enters the pipes; each compound’s card has its four-quarter averages, the way limits are judged. The limits are EPA’s 2024 rule, with compliance due from 2029; EPA has since proposed changes to some of them, explained on each compound’s page. Pennsylvania’s own limits for PFOA and PFOS are in force now. PFBS has no limit of its own and counts only toward EPA’s Hazard Index, which TapBuff works out only from UCMR 5’s averages, so it isn’t given here.

About PFAS certifications

NSF’s PFAS claims are tested to below 20 ppt. EPA’s limit is 4.0 ppt, and EPA says no certification yet shows a filter reaching its levels.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

17ppb

90th percentile, 1996

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 17 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Above the health goal1

PFOA

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.81ppt

Highest sample, June 11, 2026; found in 2 of 16

2026 average: 0.37 ppt

The highest sample was 0.81 ppt: below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029, but above its health goal of zero. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 0 ppt, for the year to Dec. 31, 2024: below Pennsylvania’s limit of 14 ppt and below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 0.37 ppt.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits5

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

5.5ppm

Highest sample; found in 36 of 40

2026 average: 2.8 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 5.5 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 2.8 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 3.4 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

PFHxS

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.9ppt

Highest sample, June 11, 2026; found in 2 of 4

2026 average: 0.93 ppt

The highest sample was 1.9 ppt, below EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way EPA’s limit is judged. Its only year on file is 2026, when its four samples averaged 0.93 ppt.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

10.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 10.6 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 18.6 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 13.7 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

6.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.4 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 11 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.4 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

PFBS

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.2ppt

Highest sample, June 11, 2026; found in 2 of 4

2026 average: 0.58 ppt

The highest sample was 1.2 ppt, below EPA’s hazard index benchmark of 2,000 ppt. PFBS has no legal limit or health goal of its own. Its only year on file is 2026, when its four samples averaged 0.58 ppt.

What handles it

7 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • PFNA
  • PFOS

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Lead Reduction, PFOA Reduction

    For: Lead, PFOA

    Other certifiers’ wording: Total PFAS Reduction; Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)

    For: Lead, PFOA

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 74 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Bloomfield Boro Water Auth’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Pennsylvania’s results run from Aug. 5, 2020 to Sept. 8, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Feb. 22, 2024 to Aug. 27, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Bloomfield Boro Water Auth’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Pennsylvania certifies.

The 3 labs Pennsylvania certifies closest to the area Bloomfield Boro Water Auth serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Harrisburg

    Harrisburg, PA · about 22 miles

    (570) 348-0775

  • H2O Environmental LLC

    Harrisburg, PA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (717) 743-9310

  • ALS Environmental - Middletown

    Middletown, PA · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity

    (717) 944-5541

Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory: Drinking water test kits from many county Extension offices, mailed back to the lab overnight with payment. Packages cover bacteria and basic chemistry, with add-ons for nitrate, metals, lead, and mining or gas drilling concerns. The standard package of bacteria, pH and total dissolved solids is $60, or $70 with nitrate; bacteria alone is $40, nitrate $15 and lead $25. Drinking Water Testing, Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Lab.

All 108 certified labs for Pennsylvania

Sources

PWSID PA7500012. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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