Sugar Creek Resthome, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 33.5 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.
About Sugar Creek Resthome
Sugar Creek Resthome serves about 323 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5030034; phone on file: 724-445-3146. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Sugar Creek Resthome's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sugar Creek Resthome is 33.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 33.5 ppb over 15 |
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. Sugar Creek Resthome's 33.5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Armstrong County
21 other systems share Armstrong County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sugar Creek Resthome. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kittanning Suburb Jt Water Aut | 8,000 | 0.67 ppb |
| Manor Twp Jt Muni Auth | 6,744 | 0.49 ppb |
| Buffalo Twp Mun Auth Freeport | 5,849 | 2.72 ppb |
| Pa American Water Kittanning | 4,499 | 3 ppb |
| Ford City Muni Water Works | 2,991 | - |
| Parks Twp Muni Auth | 2,049 | - |
| West Kittanning Muni Auth | 2,000 | - |
| E Armstrong Cnty Muni Auth | 1,875 | - |
| Gilpin Twp Muni Auth | 1,680 | - |
| Worthington West Franklin Jma | 1,500 | - |
Your move
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 Resthome 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.