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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
280 people
Connections
89
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Banner Elk, PA
County
Lebanon
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

17046

The short answer

3 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. 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. 7, 2025 to July 10, 2026.

Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from March 6, 2020 to May 8, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: PFOS was found, of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule; its result is below.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 8 samples
PFOS4.0 pptAbove the health goal2.4 ppt highest, found in 2 of 8 samples. Details
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 8 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 8 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 8 samples
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in any of 8 samples
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 health goal3

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

8.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 8.0 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 9.0 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

PFOS

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.4ppt

Highest sample, March 16, 2026; found in 2 of 8

2026 average: 0.8 ppt

The highest sample was 2.4 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 0.85 ppt, for the year to March 31, 2026: below Pennsylvania’s limit of 18 ppt and below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 0.8 ppt.

What handles it

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.001ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.001 ppb, in 2022: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.4ppm

Highest sample; found in 13 of 24

2026 average: 0.56 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 3.4 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.56 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 6.2 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.2ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.2 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.94ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.94 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.0 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
8 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Chromium (total)
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • PFBS
  • PFHxS
  • PFNA
  • PFOA

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: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, PFOS Reduction

    For: Arsenic, PFOS

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level); Total PFAS Reduction; Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Uranium

    For: Arsenic, PFOS, Uranium

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. 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 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, fluoride, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), chromium (total) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Green Acres Park’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 March 6, 2020 to May 8, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Feb. 7, 2025 to July 10, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Green Acres Park’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 Green Acres Park serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pure-Test Laboratory

    Myerstown, PA · about 6 miles

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

    (717) 866-2234

  • Owl Hill Laboratories LLC

    Lititz, PA · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (717) 627-2520

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Harrisburg

    Harrisburg, PA · about 18 miles

    (570) 348-0775

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 PA7380018. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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