Braddock Boro Water Auth, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 22.62 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2018). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Braddock Boro Water Auth serves about 1,708 people through 653 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5020007; phone on file: 412-351-2272. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Braddock Boro Water Auth's lead record
Against the period ending 2016 (21.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Braddock Boro Water Auth is 22.62 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 22.62 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 21.7 ppb over 15 |
How Braddock Boro Water Auth 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. Braddock Boro Water Auth's 22.62 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
36 other systems share Allegheny County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Braddock Boro Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa Amer Water Co-Pittsburgh | 686,000 | 4 ppb |
| Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Auth | 520,000 | 2 ppb |
| West View Water Authority | 200,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilkinsburg-Penn Jt Water Auth | 125,000 | 9.78 ppb |
| Hampton Shaler Water Authority | 61,949 | 1.26 ppb |
| Monroeville Municipal Auth | 48,500 | 1.5 ppb |
| Oakmont Water Authority | 39,901 | 0.46 ppb |
| Moon Twp Muni Auth | 38,000 | 1.87 ppb |
| West Cnty Muni Auth-Mckeesport | 32,644 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plum Boro Muni Auth | 27,500 | 3.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Braddock Boro Water 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. 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.