Newtown Artesian Water Co, 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.
Newtown Artesian Water Co at a glance
Newtown Artesian Water Co serves about 38,500 people through 10,559 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws surface water, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA1090043; phone on file: 215-968-6781. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newtown Artesian Water Co 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) |
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. Newtown Artesian Water Co's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 20th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Bucks County
68 other systems share Bucks County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newtown Artesian Water Co. 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) |
| 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) |
| Falls Twp Water & Sewer Dept | 24,400 | 1.6 ppb |
| Nwwa Warrington Township | 21,588 | 0.6 ppb |
| Upper Southampton Mun Auth | 16,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Newtown Artesian Water Co'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 Newtown Artesian Water Co 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.