Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3 serves about 3,320 people through 934 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: PA6250040; phone on file: 814-474-2238. 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 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3 is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Erie County
37 other systems share Erie County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3. 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 |
| Albion Borough | 5,842 | 0.79 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 |
| Girard Boro Water Dept | 3,301 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Fairview, PA
Look up your address in Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.