Akron Borough, PA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Akron Borough serves about 4,200 people through 1,825 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7360128; phone on file: 717-471-4580. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Akron Borough is 33 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 33 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 6.82 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 516 Pennsylvania systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 2 ppb; 143 are over 15 ppb right now and 156 have gone over at some point. Akron Borough's 2 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
92 other systems share Lancaster County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Akron Borough. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lancaster | 120,000 | 7 ppb |
| Columbia Water Co | 25,200 | 1 ppb |
| Ephrata Area Joint Authority | 24,500 | 1.52 ppb |
| East Hempfield Water Auth | 20,988 | 8 ppb |
| Elizabethtown Area Water | 19,000 | 3 ppb |
| Mt Joy Boro Auth | 15,261 | 4 ppb |
| Lititz Boro | 9,397 | 7 ppb |
| Warwick Twp Lititz Sys | 8,561 | 1 ppb |
| New Holland Borough | 8,490 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millersville Univ | 7,950 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Akron, PA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Akron Borough whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.