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Newport Boro Water Auth

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
3,200 people
Connections
952
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Newport, PA
County
Perry
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

17074

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from March 13, 2024 to Oct. 30, 2024.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 2017.

Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 12, 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

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 12 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 12 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

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

18.5ppb

90th percentile, 2017

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 18.5 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.5 ppb, in 2023: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 1 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

22.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 19.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 22.9 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 115 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its nine samples averaged 19.2 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 13 ppb, in 2019.

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

2.7ppm

Highest sample; found in 13 of 14

2026 average: 1.9 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 2.7 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its two samples averaged 1.9 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.6 ppm, in 2014. One result, 82.8 ppm on April 26, 2013 in EPA’s file, is left out as a likely entry error: the typical result there is 1.2 ppm.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

12.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 12.3 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 55.7 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 8.1 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.0 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.2 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Arsenic
  • Fluoride

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • 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.”

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
Lead and Copper RuleA required study or plan for corrosion control was not done on time.EPA: OCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationJuly 1, 2020—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 96 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), arsenic and fluoride results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Newport Boro Water 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. 12, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 13, 2024 to Oct. 30, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Newport Boro Water 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 Newport Boro Water Auth serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Harrisburg

    Harrisburg, PA · about 21 miles

    (570) 348-0775

  • H2O Environmental LLC

    Harrisburg, PA · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (717) 743-9310

  • ALS Environmental - Middletown

    Middletown, PA · about 30 miles

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

    (717) 944-5541

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 PA7500022. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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