Pa Amer Water Co New Castle, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
About Pa Amer Water Co New Castle
Pa Amer Water Co New Castle serves about 43,279 people through 18,707 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6370034; phone on file: 724-652-4684. 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 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pa Amer Water Co New Castle is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
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. Pa Amer Water Co New Castle's 2 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Pennsylvania and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Lawrence County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa Amer Water Co New Castle. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa Amer Water Co Ellwood Cty | 17,200 | 2 ppb |
| New Wilmington Boro Water Dept | 4,500 | 0.95 ppb |
| Bessemer Borough Water Dept | 1,100 | - |
| Mahoning Township | 1,032 | - |
| Borough Of Wampum Water Dept | 832 | - |
| Volant Borough Water Dept | 120 | - |
| Cedar Acres Mobile Home Park | 95 | - |
| New Castle Estates | 80 | - |
| Eastbrook Apartments | 75 | - |
| Woodmere Estates | 61 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Castle, 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 Pa Amer Water Co New Castle 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.