Troy Water Deptartment, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15.8 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. 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.
Troy Water Deptartment at a glance
Troy Water Deptartment serves about 1,362 people through 618 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2080020; phone on file: 570-297-2966. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Troy Water Deptartment's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Troy Water Deptartment is 15.8 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 15.8 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. Troy Water Deptartment's 15.8 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bradford County
20 other systems share Bradford County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Troy Water Deptartment. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Pa Susquehanna Division | 15,569 | 0.8 ppb |
| Towanda Municipal Authority | 5,000 | 7.89 ppb |
| Canton Borough Authority | 2,050 | - |
| Wysox Twp Municipal Authority | 1,763 | - |
| Bradford County Sewer & Water | 700 | - |
| Wyalusing Municipal Authority | 700 | - |
| Ulster Municipal Authority | 500 | - |
| Leraysville Water Company | 360 | - |
| New Albany Water Fund | 336 | - |
| Jackson Mhp | 300 | - |
Next steps for Troy, PA
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 Troy Water Deptartment 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.