WaterCompared

Water report · not indexed

What is in the water at 19453

3 public water systems serve this ZIP code in the federal records. Everything below comes from EPA monitoring data, and everything missing is named.

PA AMERICAN ROYERSFORD

PWSID PA1150166 · PA · serves 48,253 people

PFAS and lithium

9 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 39 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium45 µg/L87/2/2024
PFOS0.011 µg/L37/2/2024
PFOA0.0091 µg/L47/2/2024
PFBS0.007 µg/L77/2/2024
PFPeA0.0062 µg/L67/2/2024
PFHxA0.0057 µg/L67/2/2024
PFBA0.0054 µg/L27/2/2024
PFHxS0.005 µg/L17/2/2024
PFHpA0.0034 µg/L27/2/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

Median hardness 130 mg/L as CaCO₃, measured at 2 stations serving this system across 5 results, 2015-12-16 to 2021-11-09. Measured in the water source and distribution area, not at a tap, and not in your home.

PHOENIXVILLE WATER DEPT

PWSID PA1150077 · PA · serves 16,599 people

PFAS and lithium

7 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 19 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
PFBA0.057 µg/L37/29/2024
PFPeA0.01 µg/L37/29/2024
PFBS0.0098 µg/L37/29/2024
PFHxA0.009 µg/L47/29/2024
PFOA0.0059 µg/L37/29/2024
PFOS0.0051 µg/L27/29/2024
PFHpA0.0031 µg/L17/29/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

AQUA PA UPPER PROVIDENCE

PWSID PA1460015 · PA · serves 810 people

PFAS and lithium

Not sampled for PFAS. EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring covered every system serving more than 3,300 people and only a sample of smaller ones. This system was not in it, so there is no result to show, which is not the same as a result showing nothing.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

What this report cannot tell you

Every figure describes water at a sampling point: a treatment plant, an entry point to the distribution system, or a monitoring station. None of it describes water arriving at your tap. Plumbing between the two can add lead and copper, and if your home was built before 1986 a test kit tells you something no federal dataset can.

Sources: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence (final release, frozen July 2026) · EPA SDWIS health-based violations · USGS and state monitoring via the Water Quality Portal · EPA Public Water System Service Area Boundaries v3. Compiled 2026-09-01.