Echo Valley Estates, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 22.8 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.
Echo Valley Estates at a glance
Echo Valley Estates serves about 490 people through 147 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2400003; phone on file: 570-332-5300. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Echo Valley Estates is 22.8 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 22.8 ppb over 15 |
How Echo Valley Estates compares
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. Echo Valley Estates's 22.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Luzerne County
68 other systems share Luzerne County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Echo Valley Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Paw Ceasetown | 58,467 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Nesbitt | 52,640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Watres | 52,002 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hca Hazleton Division | 45,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Huntsville | 11,987 | 1.8 ppb |
| Paw Crystal Lake | 9,773 | 4 ppb |
| Veolia Water Pa Dallas | 7,563 | 3.4 ppb |
| Freeland Boro Muni Water Auth | 4,610 | 0 (not detected) |
| Veolia Water Pa Shavertown | 3,472 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conyngham Sugarloaf Joint Ma | 3,230 | - |
Next steps for Shavertown, PA
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 Echo Valley Estates 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.