Pa American Water Co Kane, 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.
Who runs the water here
Pa American Water Co Kane serves about 5,725 people through 2,300 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Mckean County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6420019; phone on file: 724-652-4157. 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 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pa American Water Co Kane is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 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 American Water Co Kane's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th 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.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Mckean County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa American Water Co Kane. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford City Water Authority | 18,500 | 1.29 ppb |
| Port Allegany Water Department | 2,591 | - |
| Smethport Borough | 2,400 | - |
| Aqua Pa Mt Jewett | 972 | - |
| Lewis Run Borough | 892 | - |
| Aiken Water Company | 850 | 15.2 ppb |
| Eldred Borough Water Auth | 850 | - |
| Rew Water Association | 325 | - |
| Rixford Waterworks Association | 234 | - |
| Hazel Hurst Water Company | 140 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Pa American Water Co Kane'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 Pa American Water Co Kane 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.