Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.89 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division at a glance
Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division serves about 43,000 people through 17,567 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4490024; phone on file: 570-672-3305. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.42 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division is 4.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.89 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.42 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.13 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.6 ppb |
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. Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division's 1.89 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Northumberland County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa American White Deer | 30,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Municipal Authority Sunbury | 11,043 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa American Turbotville | 705 | - |
| Lower Mahanoy Twp Mun Auth | 450 | - |
| Herndon Boro Jackson Twp Jma | 432 | - |
| Pa American Mcewensville | 282 | 68 ppb |
| Aqua Pa East Cameron | 200 | - |
| Bucknell View Mhp | 100 | - |
| D And H Trailer Park | 50 | - |
| Kipps Run Mobile Court | 19 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Shamokin, PA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Aqua Pa Roaring Creek Division 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.