Oxford Borough, 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 Oxford Borough
Oxford Borough serves about 5,280 people through 1,720 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: PA1150066; phone on file: 610-932-8322. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
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 Oxford Borough 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) |
How Oxford Borough compares
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. Oxford Borough's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th 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.
Other water systems in Chester County
59 other systems share Chester County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oxford Borough. 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) |
| London Grove Twp Mun Auth | 4,770 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Oxford Borough'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 Oxford Borough 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.