Shrewsbury Borough, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Shrewsbury Borough at a glance
Shrewsbury Borough serves about 4,727 people through 1,878 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 York County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA7670088; phone on file: 717-235-1427. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Shrewsbury Borough is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Shrewsbury Borough's 2 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
43 other systems share York County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Shrewsbury Borough. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| York Water Co | 206,762 | 3 ppb |
| Hanover Muni Water Works | 40,900 | 2 ppb |
| Dover Twp Water Sys | 21,097 | 4.9 ppb |
| Red Lion Municipal Authority | 15,882 | 1 ppb |
| Dallastown Yoe Water Auth | 12,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Manchester Twp Auth | 9,960 | 2 ppb |
| Dillsburg Area Authority | 8,962 | 0 (not detected) |
| Veolia Newberry System | 6,480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stewartstown Boro Water Auth | 5,206 | 0 (not detected) |
| New Freedom Boro Water Auth | 4,464 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Shrewsbury, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Shrewsbury, 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 Shrewsbury Borough 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.