Public EPA test results
Can you drink Ambridge tap water? What EPA records show
EPA PA5040008 · serves Beaver County, PA · about 19,500 people (EPA SDWIS)
This report shows EPA's federal records for this water system: UCMR 5 testing, lead testing and violations. It isn't a test of the water at your tap, and it has no Water Score.
Public EPA test results
Ambridge Water Auth (EPA PA5040008)
ScoreYourWater.com gives no verdict on your tap water; it shows what the public records say, as of October 14, 2026. For Ambridge's main utility, Ambridge Water Auth: 1 health-based violation since July 1, 2021 in EPA records (EPA SDWIS). PFOA and PFOS were not detected at or above EPA's reporting level in EPA's UCMR 5 testing.
What EPA records show for Ambridge Water Auth, as of October 14, 2026
Health-based violation: Groundwater Rule, Groundwater Rule, Jul 2023–Dec 2025 (EPA SDWIS).
Lead, 90th percentile: 9.3 ppb at the latest result in EPA records for a monitoring period that ran on or after July 1, 2021, at or below EPA's 15 ppb action level (EPA SDWIS, monitoring period Jun 1, 2025–Sep 30, 2025). The 90th percentile is a system-wide measure from homes sampled under EPA's lead rule; it isn't a result for your home.
EPA's UCMR 5 testing looked for 30 contaminants here and found none.
PFOA and PFOS were not detected at or above EPA's reporting level in EPA's UCMR 5 testing.
Source: EPA records (SDWIS, UCMR 5). SDWIS: data as of Oct 14, 2026. EPA UCMR 5 data, samples through June 2026.
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Does Ambridge Water Auth use chloramine?
We didn't find chloramine in Ambridge Water Auth's EPA treatment records. That's not a complete list; your utility's annual water quality report says which disinfectant it uses.
What EPA records show for this system
Reported results in EPA records (data as of Oct 14–15, 2026)