London Grove Twp Mun Auth, 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.
London Grove Twp Mun Auth at a glance
London Grove Twp Mun Auth serves about 4,770 people through 1,663 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 Chester County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA1150165; phone on file: 610-345-0300. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 London Grove Twp Mun Auth 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. London Grove Twp Mun Auth's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
59 other systems share Chester County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than London Grove Twp Mun Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa American Royersford | 49,508 | 2 ppb |
| Aqua Pa West Chester | 48,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa American Coatesville | 36,960 | 2 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Uwchlan | 35,518 | 2.21 ppb |
| Phoenixville Water Dept | 16,599 | 1 ppb |
| Downingtown Water Authority | 9,900 | 2 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Friendship | 8,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Pa Spring Run | 8,151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kennett Square Mun Water Works | 6,328 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oxford Borough | 5,280 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in London Grove Twp Mun Auth'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 London Grove Twp Mun Auth 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.