Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.34 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut
Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut serves about 9,300 people through 3,500 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3130004; phone on file: 570-645-3040. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (1.22 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut is 1.22 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.34 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.22 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.39 ppb |
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. Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut's 0.34 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Carbon County
27 other systems share Carbon County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lehighton Water Authority | 9,000 | 1.82 ppb |
| Palmerton Municipal Authority | 7,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Summit Hill Water Authority | 2,890 | - |
| Jim Thorpe Borough Water East | 2,853 | - |
| Nesquehoning Boro Water Auth | 2,850 | - |
| Weatherly Boro Mun Auth | 2,612 | - |
| Jim Thorpe Borough Water West | 2,274 | - |
| Beaver Meadows Borough | 968 | - |
| Bowmanstown Authority | 900 | 18.6 ppb |
| S R Water | 500 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lansford, PA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut 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.