Chicora Medical Center, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 128.21 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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.
About Chicora Medical Center
Chicora Medical Center serves about 150 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Butler County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5100127; phone on file: 724-445-2000. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chicora Medical Center is 128.21 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 128.21 ppb over 15 |
How Chicora Medical Center 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. Chicora Medical Center's 128.21 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Butler County
30 other systems share Butler County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chicora Medical Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa American Water Co Butler | 43,286 | 2 ppb |
| Cranberry Twp Wtp | 42,000 | 0.53 ppb |
| Slippery Rock Muni Auth | 15,778 | 0.55 ppb |
| Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp | 8,700 | 0.59 ppb |
| Harmony Boro Water Auth | 6,669 | 2.2 ppb |
| Zelienople Boro | 4,123 | 6.04 ppb |
| Petroleum Valley Rwa | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seven Fields Boro Water Dept | 3,100 | - |
| Evans City Borough | 1,990 | - |
| Mars Borough Water Works | 1,956 | - |
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 Chicora Medical Center 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.