Whispering Woods, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17.2 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. 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.
Whispering Woods at a glance
Whispering Woods serves about 100 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA5040049; phone on file: 724-996-0130. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whispering Woods is 17.2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.2 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. Whispering Woods's 17.2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
21 other systems share Beaver County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whispering Woods. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Beaver Falls Muni Auth | 49,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Ambridge Water Auth | 19,500 | 9.3 ppb |
| Center Twp Water Auth | 19,000 | 1.38 ppb |
| Mun Water Auth Of Aliquippa | 15,685 | 33.5 ppb |
| Creswell Heights Jt Auth | 15,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brighton Twp Muni Auth | 7,920 | 0 (not detected) |
| Monaca Boro Water Dept | 6,500 | 3.36 ppb |
| Beaver Boro Muni Auth | 5,799 | 2.6 ppb |
| North Sewickley Mun Water Auth | 4,578 | 3.7 ppb |
| New Sewickley Twp Muni Auth | 4,276 | 1.35 ppb |
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 Whispering Woods 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.