Pa American Water Co Yardley, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Pa American Water Co Yardley at a glance
Pa American Water Co Yardley serves about 33,171 people through 12,880 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA1090074; phone on file: 215-493-3346. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
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 Yardley is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 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 Yardley's 1 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bucks County
68 other systems share Bucks County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa American Water Co Yardley. 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) |
| Newtown Artesian Water Co | 38,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northampton Bucks Co Mun Auth | 36,750 | 1 ppb |
| Warminster Municipal Authority | 36,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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) |
Next steps for Yardley, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yardley, 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 American Water Co Yardley 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.