Shirleysburg Muni Auth

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

Serves: 225 people
Connections: 77
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Shirleysburg, PA
County: Huntingdon
Owner: Local government

The ZIP code it serves

17260

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Pennsylvania’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers PFAS, plus nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from Feb. 27, 2025 to Oct. 1, 2025.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, nitrate and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from July 15, 2020 to May 7, 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

PFAS	EPA’s limit	Result
PFOA	4.0 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 4 samples
PFOS	4.0 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 4 samples
PFHxS	10 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 2 samples
PFNA	10 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 2 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)	10 ppt	Not foundNot found in any of 2 samples
PFBS	Index only	Not foundNot found in any of 2 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.

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

31.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024, one sample: 22.3 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 31.3 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 22.3 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 29 ppb, in 2018.

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

11.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 11.1 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 9.2 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

11 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

HFPO-DA (GenX)
PFBS
PFHxS
PFNA
PFOA
PFOS

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 35 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), 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. Shirleysburg Muni 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 July 15, 2020 to May 7, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Feb. 27, 2025 to Oct. 1, 2025.

Testing your own tap

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

SPL-Chambersburg
Chambersburg, PA · about 26 miles
Certified for bacteria
(717) 263-9970
Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Altoona, PA
Altoona, PA · about 29 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity
(814) 946-4306
SPL - State College
State College, PA · about 33 miles
Certified for bacteria
(610) 375-8378

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