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Sbwja Hampton Hills Opequon

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
684 people
Connections
169
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Bellefonte, PA
County
Centre
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

16823

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Copper, above the action level. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from Jan. 17, 2024 to Oct. 2, 2025.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2003 to 2022.

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from July 2, 2020 to July 16, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: PFBS was found, of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule; its result is below.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 2 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 2 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 2 samples
PFBSIndex onlyBelow EPA’s limits1.7 ppt highest, found in 1 of 2 samples. Details
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

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

1.8ppm

90th percentile, 2022

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.8 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits4

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.6ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 2.6 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 2.6 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 2.6 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.9 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

7.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2026

2026, one sample: 7.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.9 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 7.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 5.3 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

3.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2026

2026, one sample: 2.6 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.4 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.6 ppb.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

PFBS

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.7ppt

Highest sample, April 3, 2025; found in 1 of 2

2025 average: 0.87 ppt

The highest sample was 1.7 ppt, below EPA’s hazard index benchmark of 2,000 ppt. PFBS has no legal limit or health goal of its own. Its only year on file is 2025, when its two samples averaged 0.87 ppt.

What handles it

9 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
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • 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.”

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.

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 is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

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. Sbwja Hampton Hills Opequon’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 July 2, 2020 to July 16, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Jan. 17, 2024 to Oct. 2, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Sbwja Hampton Hills Opequon’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 Sbwja Hampton Hills Opequon serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory

    University Park, PA · about 10 miles

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

    (814) 863-0841

  • SPL - State College

    State College, PA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (610) 375-8378

  • TGAI Laboratories LLC

    State College, PA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (814) 238-5927

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 PA4140131. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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