Pottstown Borough Water Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 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.
Pottstown Borough Water Auth at a glance
Pottstown Borough Water Auth serves about 36,000 people through 12,000 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA1460037; phone on file: 610-970-6545. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pottstown Borough Water Auth's lead record
That is down 4.5 ppb from 5.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pottstown Borough Water Auth is 5.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Pottstown Borough Water Auth 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. Pottstown Borough Water Auth's 0.9 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
37 other systems share Montgomery County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pottstown Borough Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Pa Main System | 822,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Penn Water Authority | 91,941 | 0.5 ppb |
| Pa American Norristown | 88,885 | 2 ppb |
| North Wales Water Authority | 72,496 | 1.6 ppb |
| Horsham Water&Sewer Authority | 26,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ambler Boro Water Dept | 20,000 | 2.3 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Hatboro | 12,901 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Pa Superior Main System | 11,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Collegeville Trappe Joint Pwd | 8,470 | 3 ppb |
| Pa American Audubon | 8,200 | 4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pottstown, 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 Pottstown Borough Water Auth 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.