Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.57 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.
Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth at a glance
Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth serves about 30,000 people through 5,653 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2450034; phone on file: 570-421-3232. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth is 4.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.35 ppb |
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. Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth's 0.57 ppb sits at the 26th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Monroe County
65 other systems share Monroe County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pawc Pocono District | 17,860 | 0 (not detected) |
| E Stroudsburg Boro Water Dept | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pawc Penn Estates | 4,300 | 1 ppb |
| Tobyhanna Army Depot | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pawc Manwalamink | 3,200 | - |
| Bcra Pocono Jackson System | 2,100 | - |
| Pawc Blue Mt Lake | 1,753 | - |
| Pawc Mid Monroe | 1,580 | - |
| Aqua Pa Hamilton Water Co | 1,500 | - |
| Aqua Pa Mountainhome System | 1,450 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; East Stroudsburg, 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 Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth 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.