Richland Twp Water Authority, 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.
About Richland Twp Water Authority
Richland Twp Water Authority serves about 6,800 people through 2,382 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 groundwater, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA1090131; phone on file: 215-536-4733. 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 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Richland Twp Water Authority is 3 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Richland Twp Water Authority's 1 ppb sits at the 31st percentile in Pennsylvania and the 55th 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 Richland Twp Water Authority. 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) |
| Pa American Water Co Yardley | 33,171 | 1 ppb |
| 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 |
Next steps for Quakertown, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Quakertown, 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 Richland Twp Water Authority 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.