Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.59 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.
Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp at a glance
Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp serves about 8,700 people through 5,359 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 Butler County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5100141; phone on file: 724-625-3166. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0.95 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp is 0.95 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.59 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp's 0.59 ppb sits at the 26th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
30 other systems share Butler County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa American Water Co Butler | 43,286 | 2 ppb |
| Cranberry Twp Wtp | 42,000 | 0.53 ppb |
| Slippery Rock Muni Auth | 15,778 | 0.55 ppb |
| Harmony Boro Water Auth | 6,669 | 2.2 ppb |
| Zelienople Boro | 4,123 | 6.04 ppb |
| Petroleum Valley Rwa | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seven Fields Boro Water Dept | 3,100 | - |
| Evans City Borough | 1,990 | - |
| Mars Borough Water Works | 1,956 | - |
| Chicora Boro Water Supply | 1,100 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mars, 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 Municipal Water Auth Adams Twp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.