North East Borough Water Dept, 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.
About North East Borough Water Dept
North East Borough Water Dept serves about 4,601 people through 1,732 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 Erie County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6250061; phone on file: 814-725-4198. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 North East Borough Water Dept 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. North East Borough Water Dept's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Erie County
37 other systems share Erie County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than North East Borough Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Erie City Water Authority | 220,001 | 1.08 ppb |
| Summit Township Water Authorit | 12,500 | 0.89 ppb |
| Municipal Authority Of Corry | 7,800 | 1.45 ppb |
| Edinboro Water Authority | 7,800 | 3.63 ppb |
| North East Township Water | 5,848 | 2.6 ppb |
| Albion Borough | 5,842 | 0.79 ppb |
| Fairview Twp Water District 1 | 4,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Union City Municipal Authority | 4,295 | 1.53 ppb |
| Fairview Twp Water Auth Dist 3 | 3,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Girard Boro Water Dept | 3,301 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in North East Borough Water Dept'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 North East Borough Water 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.