Hidden Valley Resort Lp

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: 750 people
Connections: 1,193
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Hidden Valley, PA
County: Somerset
Owner: Private

The ZIP code it serves

15502

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Pennsylvania’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers PFAS; nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; and lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from Jan. 25, 2024 to Oct. 10, 2024.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.9 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1993. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from June 1, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

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

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFAS	EPA’s limit	Result
PFOA	4.0 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 4 samples
PFOS	4.0 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 4 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.

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

7.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.7 ppb, in 2026, 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 19.8 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

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

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.59ppm

Highest sample; found in 9 of 9

2026, one sample: 0.45 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.59 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.45 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.61 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

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

8 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)
Lead
Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

PFOA
PFOS

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 15 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Hidden Valley Resort Lp’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 June 1, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Jan. 25, 2024 to Oct. 10, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Hidden Valley Resort Lp’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 Hidden Valley Resort Lp serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Geochemical Testing
Somerset, PA · about 6 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity
(814) 443-1671
US Micro-Solutions Inc
Latrobe, PA · about 19 miles
Certified for bacteria
(724) 853-4047
Pace Analytical Services LLC - Greensburg PA
Greensburg, PA · about 25 miles
Certified for metals, radioactivity
(724) 850-5600

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