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Gallitzin 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
3,130 people
Connections
933
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Gallitzin, PA
County
Cambria
Owner
Local government
The 2 ZIP codes it serves

16613, 16641

The short answer

2 results are above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 6 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from March 6, 2024 to May 5, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), nitrate and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 15, 2020 to July 16, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: None of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule was found in this utility’s samples.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in its one sample
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in its one sample
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in its one sample
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in its one sample
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.

Above the legal limit2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

21ppb

90th percentile, 1993

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 21 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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

93.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 26.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 93.6 ppb, in 2025, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 194 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 26.4 ppb. EPA recorded violations for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2025 and 2026. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 45.1 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

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

Below EPA’s limits2

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

40.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 27.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 40.3 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 65.2 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 27.4 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 34.5 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.053ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.053 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.055 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

10 compounds tested and not foundIncluding all six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 rule. Below the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Nitrate
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • PFBS
  • PFHxS
  • PFNA
  • PFOA
  • 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, Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Lead, Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Lead, Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2026 to June 30, 20260.091 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2026 to March 31, 20260.094 MG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 20250.094 MG/LResolved
Groundwater RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencySept. 1, 2023—Resolved
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform results required a check of the system, and the check or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 1 Assessment (RTCR)Aug. 15, 2023—Resolved
Total organic carbonNot enough organic matter was removed. It reacts with disinfectant to form byproducts.EPA: Treatment Technique Precursor RemovalJuly 1, 2019 to Sept. 30, 2019—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 44 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total), nitrate and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Gallitzin 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 Jan. 15, 2020 to July 16, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 6, 2024 to May 5, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Gallitzin 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 Gallitzin Boro Water Auth serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Altoona, PA

    Altoona, PA · about 7 miles

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

    (814) 946-4306

  • Cardan Laboratories Inc

    Northern Cambria, PA · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (814) 948-8650

  • Chemstream Lab Services

    Homer City, PA · about 30 miles

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

    (724) 915-8388

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 PA4110011. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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