Pa Amer Water Co Frackville, 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 Frackville at a glance
Pa Amer Water Co Frackville serves about 5,583 people through 2,410 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3540032; phone on file: 717-663-9933. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
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 Frackville is 0 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 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pa Amer Water Co Frackville 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. Pa Amer Water Co Frackville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share Schuylkill County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa Amer Water Co Frackville. 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) |
| Minersville Municipal Water Au | 7,275 | 14 ppb |
| 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 |
| Ashland Area Water Authority | 4,200 | 2 ppb |
| Hegins Hubley Authority | 3,870 | 2.09 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Pa Amer Water Co Frackville'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 Frackville 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.