Deer Lake Citizens Assoc, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 55.2 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2018). 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.
Who runs the water here
Deer Lake Citizens Assoc serves about 380 people through 181 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3540036; phone on file: 570-366-1583. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Deer Lake Citizens Assoc's lead record
That is up 38.15 ppb from 17.05 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deer Lake Citizens Assoc is 55.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 55.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 17.05 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. Deer Lake Citizens Assoc's 55.2 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Schuylkill County
38 other systems share Schuylkill County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deer Lake Citizens Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Schuylkill Co Mun Auth | 31,850 | 1.1 ppb |
| Aqua Shenandoah | 9,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tamaqua Area Water Authority | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Minersville Municipal Water Au | 7,275 | 14 ppb |
| Blythe Twp Municipal Authority | 7,100 | 3.77 ppb |
| Kline Township Mun Authority | 6,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Schuylkill Haven Boro Water | 6,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mahanoy Twp Auth | 5,584 | 4 ppb |
| Pa Amer Water Co Frackville | 5,583 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashland Area Water Authority | 4,200 | 2 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 Deer Lake Citizens Assoc whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1670 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.