Aqua Shenandoah, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Aqua Shenandoah serves about 9,500 people through 4,442 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3540044; phone on file: 570-462-1904. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Aqua Shenandoah's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Aqua Shenandoah is 2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.8 ppb |
How Aqua Shenandoah compares
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 Shenandoah's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Schuylkill County
38 other systems share Schuylkill County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Aqua Shenandoah. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Schuylkill Co Mun Auth | 31,850 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tamaqua Area Water Authority | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minersville Municipal Water Au | 7,275 | 14 ppb |
| Blythe Twp Municipal Authority | 7,100 | 3.77 ppb |
| Kline Township Mun Authority | 6,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Schuylkill Haven Boro Water | 6,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mahanoy Twp Auth | 5,584 | 4 ppb |
| Pa Amer Water Co Frackville | 5,583 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashland Area Water Authority | 4,200 | 2 ppb |
| Hegins Hubley Authority | 3,870 | 2.09 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Aqua Shenandoah's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Aqua Shenandoah whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1405 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.