Beaver Run Water Association, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 25.8 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.
Beaver Run Water Association at a glance
Beaver Run Water Association serves about 50 people through 65 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3130038; phone on file: 610-844-3444. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 37.65 ppb from 63.45 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beaver Run Water Association is 80.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 25.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 63.45 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 20.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 80.5 ppb over 15 |
How Beaver Run Water Association 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. Beaver Run Water Association's 25.8 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Carbon County
27 other systems share Carbon County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beaver Run Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut | 9,300 | 0.34 ppb |
| Lehighton Water Authority | 9,000 | 1.82 ppb |
| Palmerton Municipal Authority | 7,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Summit Hill Water Authority | 2,890 | - |
| Jim Thorpe Borough Water East | 2,853 | - |
| Nesquehoning Boro Water Auth | 2,850 | - |
| Weatherly Boro Mun Auth | 2,612 | - |
| Jim Thorpe Borough Water West | 2,274 | - |
| Beaver Meadows Borough | 968 | - |
| Bowmanstown Authority | 900 | 18.6 ppb |
Next steps for East Norriton, PA
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 Beaver Run Water Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1710 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.