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Millheim Borough Water Company

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
902 people
Connections
391
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Millheim, PA
County
Centre
Owner
Local government
The 2 ZIP codes it serves

16854, 16875

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 3 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 26, 2024 to July 16, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 1996.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from April 30, 2020 to Sept. 3, 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. None of the other 12 PFAS tested for was found either.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 11 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 11 samples
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 10 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 10 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 10 samples
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in any of 10 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.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

3.0ppb

90th percentile, 1996

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 3.0 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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

48.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 46.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 48.7 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 101 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 46.8 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 40.2 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

48.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 31.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 48.1 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 59.4 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 31.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 50.6 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
23 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)
  • Fluoride
  • Nitrate
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • 11Cl-PF3OUdS
  • 9Cl-PF3ONS
  • ADONA
  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • NEtFOSAA
  • NMeFOSAA
  • PFBS
  • PFDA
  • PFDoA
  • PFHpA
  • PFHxA
  • PFHxS
  • PFNA
  • PFOA
  • PFOS
  • PFTA
  • PFTrDA
  • PFUnA

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.”

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.

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment RuleOne cloudiness reading was above the maximum allowed.EPA: Single Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)March 1, 2026 to March 31, 202699,999 NTUArchived
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment RuleToo many readings in a month showed cloudiness above the filtration standard.EPA: Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)March 1, 2026 to March 31, 2026—Archived
Groundwater RuleA significant problem found in a state inspection was not fixed on time.EPA: Failure To Address DeficiencyJune 28, 2023—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 157 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Millheim Borough Water Company’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 April 30, 2020 to Sept. 3, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 26, 2024 to July 16, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Millheim Borough Water Company’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 Millheim Borough Water Company serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • SPL - State College

    State College, PA · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (610) 375-8378

  • TGAI Laboratories LLC

    State College, PA · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (814) 238-5927

  • Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory

    University Park, PA · about 18 miles

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

    (814) 863-0841

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 PA4140084. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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