Bowmanstown Authority, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 18.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Bowmanstown Authority at a glance
Bowmanstown Authority serves about 900 people through 437 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3130021; phone on file: 610-852-2289. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 10.5 ppb from 29.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowmanstown Authority is 29.1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 18.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 29.1 ppb over 15 |
Against other Pennsylvania systems
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. Bowmanstown Authority's 18.6 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Carbon County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bowmanstown Authority. 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 | - |
| S R Water | 500 | - |
What to do in your house
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 Bowmanstown Authority 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.