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Kittanning Plumcreek Watr Auth

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

Serves
600 people
Connections
234
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Kittanning, PA
County
Armstrong
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

16201

The short answer

1 result is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the limit’s level, no violation. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 14, 2020 to Aug. 21, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the limit’s level, no violation

95.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 36.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 95.5 ppb, in 2023, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 111 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its five samples averaged 36.5 ppb. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 67 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Below EPA’s limits1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

23.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 5.6 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 23.4 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 30.2 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its seven samples averaged 5.6 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 18 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

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 9 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Kittanning Plumcreek Watr 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 Feb. 14, 2020 to Aug. 21, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Kittanning Plumcreek Watr 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 Kittanning Plumcreek Watr Auth serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Drinking Water and Wastewater Northeast

    Kittaning, PA · under a mile

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

    (724) 543-3011

  • Kevco Services, Inc

    Butler, PA · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (724) 586-6343

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC-Indiana

    Indiana, PA · about 21 miles

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

    (724) 463-8378

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 PA5030013. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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