Mid Lakes Development, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 152 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Mid Lakes Development
Mid Lakes Development serves about 490 people through 260 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3130037; phone on file: 570-899-1668. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 65.8 ppb from 86.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mid Lakes Development is 152 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 6 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 152 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 86.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 23.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 56.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 16.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 21.55 ppb over 15 |
How Mid Lakes Development 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. Mid Lakes Development's 152 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
27 other systems share Carbon County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mid Lakes Development. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lansford Coaldale Jt Water Aut | 9,300 | 0.34 ppb |
| 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 |
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 Mid Lakes Development whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 4405 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.