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What is in the water at 19454

3 public water systems serve this ZIP code in the federal records. Everything below comes from EPA monitoring data, and everything missing is named.

HORSHAM WATER&SEWER AUTHORITY

PWSID PA1460033 · PA · serves 26,000 people

PFAS and lithium

9 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 25 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium14 µg/L28/5/2024
PFPeA0.065 µg/L98/6/2024
PFBA0.041 µg/L88/5/2024
PFOS0.034 µg/L112/16/2024
PFOA0.018 µg/L112/16/2024
PFHxS0.011 µg/L112/16/2024
PFHxA0.0071 µg/L112/16/2024
PFBS0.0057 µg/L112/16/2024
PFHpA0.0044 µg/L112/16/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

We do not state a hardness for any system, and this is why. Hardness here would come from environmental monitoring stations that happen to sit inside your water system’s service area. We checked that method against the figures twenty large utilities publish about their own supply: it agreed with the utility fewer than half the time, and where it was wrong it usually read HIGH. Cities supplied from a distant watershed came off worst, because the stations end up sampling local groundwater nobody drinks. We are paid a referral fee when somebody asks for an installer, so a number that overstates hardness is the last error we are willing to publish. Your utility publishes its own hardness in its annual water quality report, and that figure is the one to trust.

NORTH PENN WATER AUTHORITY

PWSID PA1460034 · PA · serves 91,941 people

PFAS and lithium

4 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 21 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium24 µg/L84/10/2024
PFOA0.0051 µg/L54/10/2024
PFBS0.004 µg/L64/10/2024
PFPeA0.0034 µg/L24/10/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

We do not state a hardness for any system, and this is why. Hardness here would come from environmental monitoring stations that happen to sit inside your water system’s service area. We checked that method against the figures twenty large utilities publish about their own supply: it agreed with the utility fewer than half the time, and where it was wrong it usually read HIGH. Cities supplied from a distant watershed came off worst, because the stations end up sampling local groundwater nobody drinks. We are paid a referral fee when somebody asks for an installer, so a number that overstates hardness is the last error we are willing to publish. Your utility publishes its own hardness in its annual water quality report, and that figure is the one to trust.

NORTH WALES WATER AUTHORITY

PWSID PA1460048 · PA · serves 72,496 people

PFAS and lithium

10 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 70 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium9.7 µg/L28/14/2024
PFOA0.013 µg/L128/14/2024
PFOS0.011 µg/L118/14/2024
PFPeA0.0093 µg/L108/14/2024
PFHxA0.0081 µg/L108/14/2024
PFBA0.0068 µg/L38/14/2024
PFBS0.0064 µg/L128/14/2024
PFHpA0.0058 µg/L78/14/2024
PFNA0.0056 µg/L18/14/2024
PFHxS0.0037 µg/L28/14/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

What this report cannot tell you

Every figure describes water at a sampling point: a treatment plant, an entry point to the distribution system, or a monitoring station. None of it describes water arriving at your tap. Plumbing between the two can add lead and copper, and if your home was built before 1986 a test kit tells you something no federal dataset can.

Sources: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence (final release, frozen July 2026) · EPA SDWIS health-based violations · USGS and state monitoring via the Water Quality Portal · EPA Public Water System Service Area Boundaries v3. Compiled 2026-09-01.