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New Enterprise Water Assn

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
500 people
Connections
182
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
New Enterprise, PA
County
Bedford
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

16664

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Nitrate, above the legal limit. 5 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 Feb. 20, 2024 to May 6, 2025.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1994 to 1995.

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 27, 2020 to Sept. 22, 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 12 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 12 samples
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in any of 6 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 legal limit1

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Above the legal limit

11.4ppm

Highest sample; found in 37 of 43

2026 average: 5.8 ppm

From 2024 to 2026, six samples were above EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm, the highest 11.4 ppm in 2025. The next sample at the same point, within 30 days, kept the average above the limit for two; three came back under and one has no follow-up sample on file within 30 days. In 2026, the latest year on file, its 10 samples averaged 5.8 ppm. EPA recorded a violation for nitrate at this utility in 2025. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 11.8 ppm, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012 and 2018.

What handles it

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

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

5.0ppb

90th percentile, 1995

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 5.0 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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

6.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.7 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 7.8 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 8.0 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 5.0 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.5 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

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)
  • Fluoride
  • 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: Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge), Lead Reduction

    For: Nitrate, Lead

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: Nitrate, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Nitrate

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Groundwater RuleRequired treatment for surface water or groundwater was not met.EPA: Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Feb. 1, 2026 to Feb. 28, 2026—Resolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleOct. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 202511.4 MG/LResolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleJan. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 202511.1 MG/LResolved
Groundwater RuleRequired treatment for surface water or groundwater was not met.EPA: Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Oct. 1, 2018 to Oct. 31, 2018—Resolved
NitrateA sample was above the legal limit, for a contaminant judged one sample at a time.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Single SampleApril 1, 2018 to June 30, 201810.7 MG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 53 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. New Enterprise Water Assn’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. 27, 2020 to Sept. 22, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Feb. 20, 2024 to May 6, 2025.

Testing your own tap

New Enterprise Water Assn’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 New Enterprise Water Assn 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 23 miles

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

    (814) 946-4306

  • Geochemical Testing

    Somerset, PA · about 39 miles

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

    (814) 443-1671

  • Cardan Laboratories Inc

    Northern Cambria, PA · about 39 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (814) 948-8650

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 PA4050033. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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