Pa Amer Water Co Brownell, PA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Pa Amer Water Co Brownell at a glance
Pa Amer Water Co Brownell serves about 12,560 people through 6,700 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2359001; phone on file: 570-282-7961. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pa Amer Water Co Brownell is 8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
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. Pa Amer Water Co Brownell's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 17th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
30 other systems share Lackawanna County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa Amer Water Co Brownell. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton | 137,142 | 1 ppb |
| Pa Amer Water Co Fallbrook | 2,851 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Chinchilla | 904 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Moscow | 600 | - |
| Clarks Summit State Hospital | 576 | 30.5 ppb |
| Aqua Pa Jefferson Heights | 556 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Thornhurst Cc | 500 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Edgewood | 382 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Spangenberg | 370 | - |
| St Marys Villa Nursing Home | 353 | 20 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Pa Amer Water Co Brownell's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Pa Amer Water Co Brownell 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.