Getz Personal Care Home, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.95 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.
About Getz Personal Care Home
Getz Personal Care Home serves about 95 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2450079; phone on file: 570-629-1334. 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 Getz Personal Care Home is 16.95 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 16.95 ppb over 15 |
How Getz Personal Care Home 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. Getz Personal Care Home's 16.95 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Monroe County
65 other systems share Monroe County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Getz Personal Care Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth | 30,000 | 0.57 ppb |
| 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 | - |
Next steps for Kunkletown, 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 Getz Personal Care Home whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1685 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.