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Brookside Village MHP

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
475 people
Connections
170
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Berwick, PA
County
Columbia
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

18603

The short answer

2 results are above EPA’s legal limit, 2 more are above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: PFOS, above Pennsylvania’s limit. 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 March 20, 2024 to July 1, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1994 to 1996.

Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 11, 2020 to July 1, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, PFNA 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 Pennsylvania’s limit520 ppt highest, found in 23 of 23 samples. Details
PFOS4.0 pptAbove Pennsylvania’s limit2,900 ppt highest, found in 23 of 23 samples. Details
PFHxS10 pptAbove EPA’s new limit (2029)158 ppt highest, found in 14 of 14 samples. Details
PFNA10 pptAbove EPA’s new limit (2029)27.8 ppt highest, found in 9 of 14 samples. Details
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 14 samples
PFBSIndex onlyBelow EPA’s limits34 ppt highest, found in 14 of 14 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 limit2

PFOS

Comes from the source

Above Pennsylvania’s limit

2,900ppt

Highest sample, July 1, 2026; found in 23 of 23

2026 average: 1,350 ppt

The highest sample was 2,900 ppt, about 725 times EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. EPA’s health goal is zero. Compliance will be judged on a running annual average, not one sample. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 1,725 ppt, for the year to Dec. 31, 2024: above Pennsylvania’s limit of 18 ppt and above EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. Pennsylvania recorded 20 violations of its limit for PFOS here, dated April 23, 2024, July 23, 2024, Oct. 31, 2024 and 7 more dates, on running averages of 553 to 2,100 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 1,350 ppt.

What handles it

PFOA

Comes from the source

Above Pennsylvania’s limit

520ppt

Highest sample, April 18, 2024; found in 23 of 23

2026 average: 243 ppt

The highest sample was 520 ppt, about 130 times EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. EPA’s health goal is zero. Compliance will be judged on a running annual average, not one sample. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 370 ppt, for the year to Dec. 31, 2024: above Pennsylvania’s limit of 14 ppt and above EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. Pennsylvania recorded 20 violations of its limit for PFOA here, dated April 23, 2024, July 23, 2024, Oct. 31, 2024 and 7 more dates, on running averages of 99 to 390 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 243 ppt.

What handles it

Above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 20292

PFHxS

Comes from the source

Above EPA’s new limit (2029)

158ppt

Highest sample, April 15, 2026; found in 14 of 14

2026 average: 100 ppt

The highest sample was 158 ppt, about 16 times EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. EPA’s health goal is 10 ppt. Compliance will be judged on a running annual average, not one sample. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way EPA’s limit is judged, the highest was 133 ppt, for the year to June 30, 2026: above EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 100 ppt.

What handles it

PFNA

Comes from the source

Above EPA’s new limit (2029)

27.8ppt

Highest sample, April 15, 2026; found in 9 of 14

2026 average: 16.9 ppt

The highest sample was 27.8 ppt, about 2.8 times EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. EPA’s health goal is 10 ppt. Compliance will be judged on a running annual average, not one sample. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way EPA’s limit is judged, the highest was 22.6 ppt, for the year to Sept. 30, 2026: above EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 16.9 ppt.

What handles it

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

4.5ppb

90th percentile, 1996

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 4.5 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

9.3ppm

Highest sample; found in 54 of 54

2026 average: 6.9 ppm

The highest sample, in 2023, was 9.3 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 6.9 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 9.1 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

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

PFBS

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

34ppt

Highest sample, April 15, 2026; found in 14 of 14

2026 average: 23.2 ppt

The highest sample was 34 ppt, below EPA’s hazard index benchmark of 2,000 ppt. PFBS has no legal limit or health goal of its own. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 23.2 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
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)

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: PFOS Reduction, PFOA Reduction, Total PFAS Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS, PFNA, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS); Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA); Perfluorohexane Sulfonic Acid (PFHxS); Perfluorononanoic Acid (PFNA)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Lead Reduction

    For: PFOS, PFOA, Lead

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.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 130 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Brookside Village MHP’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 Feb. 11, 2020 to July 1, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 20, 2024 to July 1, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Brookside Village MHP’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 Brookside Village MHP serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • HawkMtn Labs Inc

    Hazle Township, PA · about 14 miles

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

    (570) 455-6011

  • A E Kirby Memorial Health Center

    Wilkes-Barre, PA · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (570) 822-4278

  • Eurofins Drinking Water and Wastewater Northeast, LLC

    Pottsville, PA · about 28 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (570) 662-7315

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 PA4190019. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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