Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.67 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.
Who runs the water here
Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut serves about 8,000 people through 2,970 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 Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5030043; phone on file: 724-545-6395. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut is 0.67 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.67 ppb |
| 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. Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut's 0.67 ppb sits at the 27th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Armstrong County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Manor Twp Jt Muni Auth | 6,744 | 0.49 ppb |
| Buffalo Twp Mun Auth Freeport | 5,849 | 2.72 ppb |
| Pa American Water Kittanning | 4,499 | 3 ppb |
| Ford City Muni Water Works | 2,991 | - |
| Parks Twp Muni Auth | 2,049 | - |
| West Kittanning Muni Auth | 2,000 | - |
| E Armstrong Cnty Muni Auth | 1,875 | - |
| Gilpin Twp Muni Auth | 1,680 | - |
| Worthington West Franklin Jma | 1,500 | - |
| South Buffalo Twp Muni Auth | 1,230 | - |
Next steps for Adrian, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Adrian, 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 Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut 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.