Devereux Pocono Center, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 78 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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
Devereux Pocono Center serves about 115 people through 4 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2640014; phone on file: 570-839-6140. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Devereux Pocono Center's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Devereux Pocono Center is 78 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 78 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. Devereux Pocono Center's 78 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
37 other systems share Wayne County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Devereux Pocono Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Pa Water Co Honesdale | 5,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roamingwood Sewer And Water | 3,775 | 2.38 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Sci Waymart | 3,200 | - |
| Wallenpaupack Lake Estates | 2,200 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Hawley | 1,800 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Waymart | 1,100 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Indian Rocks | 1,100 | - |
| Aqua Pa Paupackan Lake Estates | 800 | - |
| Lake Wallenpaupack Sandy Shore | 499 | - |
| Hamlin Water Company | 400 | - |
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 Devereux Pocono Center 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.