Hca Hazleton Division, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Hca Hazleton Division serves about 45,000 people through 15,152 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2408001; phone on file: 570-454-2401. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Hca Hazleton Division's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hca Hazleton Division is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Hca Hazleton Division's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in Pennsylvania and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Luzerne County
68 other systems share Luzerne County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hca Hazleton Division. 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) |
| 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 | - |
| Sci Dallas | 2,900 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Hca Hazleton Division's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hca Hazleton Division 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.