Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton at a glance
Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton serves about 137,142 people through 61,223 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2359008; phone on file: 570-829-5398. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton's 1 ppb sits at the 34th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
30 other systems share Lackawanna County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton. 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 Brownell | 12,560 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wilkes Barre, 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 Pa Amer Water Co Lake Scranton 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.