Minersville Municipal Water Au, PA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Minersville Municipal Water Au serves about 7,275 people through 3,237 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 surface water, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3540035; phone on file: 570-544-4462. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 11.14 ppb from 2.86 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Minersville Municipal Water Au is 14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 2.86 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.9 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. Minersville Municipal Water Au's 14 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Pennsylvania and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Schuylkill County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Minersville Municipal Water Au. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Schuylkill Co Mun Auth | 31,850 | 1.1 ppb |
| Aqua Shenandoah | 9,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tamaqua Area Water Authority | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blythe Twp Municipal Authority | 7,100 | 3.77 ppb |
| Kline Township Mun Authority | 6,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Schuylkill Haven Boro Water | 6,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mahanoy Twp Auth | 5,584 | 4 ppb |
| Pa Amer Water Co Frackville | 5,583 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashland Area Water Authority | 4,200 | 2 ppb |
| Hegins Hubley Authority | 3,870 | 2.09 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Minersville, 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 Minersville Municipal Water Au 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.