Laurel Health Resources, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.32 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. 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.
Laurel Health Resources at a glance
Laurel Health Resources serves about 240 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3060031; phone on file: 610-562-2284. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurel Health Resources is 16.32 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.32 ppb over 15 |
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. Laurel Health Resources's 16.32 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Berks County
71 other systems share Berks County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laurel Health Resources. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Area Water Authority | 95,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Paw Penn District | 28,508 | 3 ppb |
| Paw Glen Alsace Div | 24,951 | 1 ppb |
| Muhlenberg Twp Muni Auth | 22,400 | 1 ppb |
| Kutztown Borough Water | 14,200 | 3 ppb |
| Shillington Muni Auth | 13,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt Penn Boro Muni Auth | 10,400 | 3.4 ppb |
| Wyomissing Boro Water System | 8,500 | 1 ppb |
| Boyertown Muni Auth | 8,000 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wernersville Muni Water Auth | 7,920 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
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 Laurel Health Resources 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.