Beaver Boro Muni Auth, PA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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.
Beaver Boro Muni Auth at a glance
Beaver Boro Muni Auth serves about 5,799 people through 2,026 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 Beaver County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5040009; phone on file: 724-773-6705. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.68 ppb from 5.28 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beaver Boro Muni Auth is 15.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.28 ppb |
| 2019 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 15.2 ppb over 15 |
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. Beaver Boro Muni Auth's 2.6 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Beaver County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beaver Boro Muni Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beaver Falls Muni Auth | 49,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ambridge Water Auth | 19,500 | 9.3 ppb |
| Center Twp Water Auth | 19,000 | 1.38 ppb |
| Mun Water Auth Of Aliquippa | 15,685 | 33.5 ppb |
| Creswell Heights Jt Auth | 15,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brighton Twp Muni Auth | 7,920 | 0 (not detected) |
| Monaca Boro Water Dept | 6,500 | 3.36 ppb |
| North Sewickley Mun Water Auth | 4,578 | 3.7 ppb |
| New Sewickley Twp Muni Auth | 4,276 | 1.35 ppb |
| Baden Boro Water Dept | 3,948 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Beaver, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Beaver, 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 Beaver Boro Muni Auth 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.