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Fairview Twp Water District 1, 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.

About Fairview Twp Water District 1

Fairview Twp Water District 1 serves about 4,500 people through 1,741 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 surface water, in Erie County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6250087; 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 District 1 is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20250 (not detected)
20220 (not detected)
20190 (not detected)
20160 (not detected)

How Fairview Twp Water District 1 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. Fairview Twp Water District 1's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Neighbouring systems

37 other systems share Erie County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fairview Twp Water District 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Erie City Water Authority220,0011.08 ppb
Summit Township Water Authorit12,5000.89 ppb
Municipal Authority Of Corry7,8001.45 ppb
Edinboro Water Authority7,8003.63 ppb
North East Township Water5,8482.6 ppb
Albion Borough5,8420.79 ppb
North East Borough Water Dept4,6010 (not detected)
Union City Municipal Authority4,2951.53 ppb
Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 33,3200 (not detected)
Girard Boro Water Dept3,3010 (not detected)

Next steps for Fairview, PA

Look up your address in Fairview Twp Water District 1'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 District 1 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.