Ken-Man Water Co, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 37.5 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.
About Ken-Man Water Co
Ken-Man Water Co serves about 475 people through 217 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3390079; phone on file: 610-760-9124. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Ken-Man Water Co's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ken-Man Water Co is 37.5 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 37.5 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. Ken-Man Water Co's 37.5 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Lehigh County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ken-Man Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lca Allentown Division | 118,000 | 7 ppb |
| Lca Wlsa Central Division | 47,693 | 2 ppb |
| Swt Main System | 14,500 | 6 ppb |
| Emmaus Borough Public Water | 14,000 | 3 ppb |
| Whitehall Twp Authority | 13,063 | 4 ppb |
| Salisbury Twp Water System | 8,522 | 3 ppb |
| Upper Saucon Twp Water Supply | 7,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Catasauqua Mun Water Works | 6,598 | 5 ppb |
| Slatington Borough Water Sys | 4,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Macungie Borough Authority | 3,039 | - |
Your move
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 Ken-Man Water Co 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.