Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys at a glance
Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys serves about 5,100 people through 1,459 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3060018; phone on file: 610-645-1145. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.24 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.89 ppb |
How Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys compares
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. Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys's 3 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
71 other systems share Berks County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Area Water Authority | 95,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Penn District | 28,508 | 3 ppb |
| Paw Glen Alsace Div | 24,951 | 1 ppb |
| Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth | 22,400 | 1 ppb |
| Kutztown Borough Water | 14,200 | 3 ppb |
| Shillington Muni Auth | 13,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Penn Boro Muni Auth | 10,400 | 3.4 ppb |
| Wyomissing Boro Water System | 8,500 | 1 ppb |
| Boyertown Muni Auth | 8,000 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wernersville Muni Water Auth | 7,920 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Bryn Mawr, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bryn Mawr, 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 Aqua Pa Flying Hills Wa Sys 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.