Paw Winola, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 97.7 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2018). 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.
Who runs the water here
Paw Winola serves about 63 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2660004; phone on file: 610-248-7934. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paw Winola is 97.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 97.7 ppb over 15 |
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. Paw Winola's 97.7 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wyoming County
27 other systems share Wyoming County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paw Winola. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Tunkhannock Boro Munic Auth | 5,349 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eaton Sewer & Water Co | 3,100 | - |
| Aqua Pa Factoryville | 2,323 | - |
| Nicholson Boro Auth | 789 | - |
| Aqua Pa Rivercrest | 625 | - |
| Meshoppen Borough Water Co | 563 | 32.28 ppb |
| Laceyville Water Co | 415 | - |
| Veolia Water Pa Noxen | 315 | - |
| Aqua Pa Washington Park | 300 | - |
| Clarendon Acres Water Co | 280 | - |
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 Paw Winola 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.