Sharpsville Boro Water Co, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.44 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.
Sharpsville Boro Water Co at a glance
Sharpsville Boro Water Co serves about 5,029 people through 2,000 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 surface water, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6430055; phone on file: 724-962-7896. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Sharpsville Boro Water Co's lead record
That is down 1.66 ppb from 3.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sharpsville Boro Water Co is 3.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.44 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Sharpsville Boro Water Co 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. Sharpsville Boro Water Co's 1.44 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Mercer County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Sharpsville Boro Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Pa Shenango Valley Wtp | 48,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Pa Greenville | 8,600 | 0.84 ppb |
| Grove City Boro Water Dept | 7,871 | 1.48 ppb |
| Pine Twp Water Distr System | 3,082 | - |
| Reynolds Water Company | 2,370 | - |
| Buhl Community Water Company | 2,227 | - |
| Aqua Pa Lake Latonka Wtp | 1,600 | - |
| Sandy Lake Boro | 1,100 | - |
| St Paul Homes | 1,000 | - |
| Stoneboro Water Works | 956 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sharpsville, 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 Sharpsville Boro Water Co 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.