Sugar Creek Care Center, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 19 ppb (monitoring period 2016-2016). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Sugar Creek Care Center at a glance
Sugar Creek Care Center serves about 356 people through 5 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Venango County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA6610002. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sugar Creek Care Center is 19 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 19 ppb over 15 |
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. Sugar Creek Care Center's 19 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Venango County
24 other systems share Venango County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Sugar Creek Care Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oil City | 9,608 | 1.51 ppb |
| General Authority Of Franklin | 9,096 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seneca & Cranberry Mall Dist | 4,500 | 1.02 ppb |
| Sandycreek Twp Waterworks | 2,417 | - |
| Cornplanter Township | 1,835 | - |
| Barkeyville Mun Authority | 1,600 | - |
| Polk Center | 1,058 | - |
| Sugarcreek Borough | 1,000 | - |
| Aqua Pa Emlenton | 915 | - |
| Pleasantville Borough Water | 846 | - |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Sugar Creek Care Center 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.