Albion Borough, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.79 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Albion Borough at a glance
Albion Borough serves about 5,842 people through 775 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 Erie County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6250007; phone on file: 814-756-3660. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.79 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Albion Borough is 0.79 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.79 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.79 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Pennsylvania systems
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. Albion Borough's 0.79 ppb sits at the 28th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
37 other systems share Erie County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Albion Borough. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Erie City Water Authority | 220,001 | 1.08 ppb |
| Summit Township Water Authorit | 12,500 | 0.89 ppb |
| Municipal Authority Of Corry | 7,800 | 1.45 ppb |
| Edinboro Water Authority | 7,800 | 3.63 ppb |
| North East Township Water | 5,848 | 2.6 ppb |
| North East Borough Water Dept | 4,601 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairview Twp Water District 1 | 4,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union City Municipal Authority | 4,295 | 1.53 ppb |
| Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3 | 3,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Girard Boro Water Dept | 3,301 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Albion, 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 Albion 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.