Clarks Summit State Hospital, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 30.5 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2019). 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.
Clarks Summit State Hospital at a glance
Clarks Summit State Hospital serves about 576 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2350028; phone on file: 570-587-7246. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clarks Summit State Hospital is 30.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 30.5 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Clarks Summit State Hospital's 30.5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
30 other systems share Lackawanna County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clarks Summit State Hospital. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton | 137,142 | 1 ppb |
| Pa Amer Water Co Brownell | 12,560 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pa Amer Water Co Fallbrook | 2,851 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Chinchilla | 904 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Moscow | 600 | - |
| Aqua Pa Jefferson Heights | 556 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Thornhurst Cc | 500 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Edgewood | 382 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Spangenberg | 370 | - |
| St Marys Villa Nursing Home | 353 | 20 ppb |
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 Clarks Summit State Hospital 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.