Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept at a glance
Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept serves about 24,400 people through 8,511 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA1090022; phone on file: 215-946-6062. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept is 1.82 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.82 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept's 1.6 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
68 other systems share Bucks County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Bucks Co Joint Mun Auth | 63,007 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Pa Bensalem | 59,001 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bcwsa Main Lower South | 52,621 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newtown Artesian Water Co | 38,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northampton Bucks Co Mun Auth | 36,750 | 1 ppb |
| Warminster Municipal Authority | 36,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa American Water Co Yardley | 33,171 | 1 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Bristol | 28,727 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nwwa Warrington Township | 21,588 | 0.6 ppb |
| Upper Southampton Mun Auth | 16,000 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fairless Hills, 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 Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.