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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
50 people
Connections
61
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Durham, PA
County
Beaver
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

16063

The short answer

3 results are above the health goal. The worst: PFOA, above the health goal. 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 26, 2025 to Oct. 2, 2025.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 1994.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Sept. 21, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Dec. 3, 2013 to Dec. 3, 2013. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

PFAS: PFOA and PFOS were found, of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule; their results are below.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptAbove the health goal2.6 ppt highest, found in 1 of 5 samples. Details
PFOS4.0 pptAbove the health goal2.0 ppt highest, found in 1 of 5 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.

About PFAS certifications

NSF’s PFAS claims are tested to below 20 ppt. EPA’s limit is 4.0 ppt, and EPA says no certification yet shows a filter reaching its levels.

Above the health goal3

PFOA

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.6ppt

Highest sample, Oct. 2, 2025; found in 1 of 5

2025 average: 0.52 ppt

The highest sample was 2.6 ppt: below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029, but above its health goal of zero. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 0.65 ppt, for the year to Dec. 31, 2025: below Pennsylvania’s limit of 14 ppt and below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. Its only year on file is 2025, when its five samples averaged 0.52 ppt.

What handles it

PFOS

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.0ppt

Highest sample, Oct. 2, 2025; found in 1 of 5

2025 average: 0.4 ppt

The highest sample was 2.0 ppt: below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029, but above its health goal of zero. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 0.5 ppt, for the year to Dec. 31, 2025: below Pennsylvania’s limit of 18 ppt and below EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. Its only year on file is 2025, when its five samples averaged 0.4 ppt.

What handles it

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

7.0ppb

90th percentile, 1994

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 7.0 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 limits3

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

13.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 13.8 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 12.4 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.38ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024, one sample: 0.089 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.38 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.089 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.58 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.9ppm

Highest sample; found in 4 of 8

2026, one sample: 0.9 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 0.9 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 0.9 ppm.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Uranium

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: PFOA Reduction, PFOS Reduction, Lead Reduction

    For: PFOA, PFOS, Lead

    Other certifiers’ wording: Total PFAS Reduction; Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA); Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Lead Reduction

    For: PFOA, PFOS, 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

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform results required a check of the system, and the check or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 1 Assessment (RTCR)Oct. 6, 2021—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 87 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Sky View Terrace’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and 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 Sept. 21, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from Dec. 3, 2013 to Dec. 3, 2013; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 26, 2025 to Oct. 2, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Sky View Terrace’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 Sky View Terrace serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Allegheny County Health Department Public Health Laboratory

    Warrendale, PA · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (412) 578-8070

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. Pittsburgh Division

    Warrendale, PA · about 6 miles

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

    (724) 772-0610

  • Kevco Services, Inc

    Butler, PA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (724) 586-6343

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 PA5040056. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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