Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 62 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc at a glance
Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc serves about 450 people through 126 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: PA3130040; phone on file: 570-722-8314. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 320 ppb from 382 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc is 382 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 5 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 62 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 382 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 132 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 27.52 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 128.45 ppb over 15 |
How Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc 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. Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc's 62 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Carbon County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc. 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 Moscow, 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 Blue Heron Homeowners Assoc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2660 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.