Pawc Penn Estates, 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.
About Pawc Penn Estates
Pawc Penn Estates serves about 4,300 people through 1,734 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2450065; phone on file: 570-424-9322. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pawc Penn Estates is 7.1 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.07 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.9 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. Pawc Penn Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
65 other systems share Monroe County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pawc Penn Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brodhead Creek Reg Water Auth | 30,000 | 0.57 ppb |
| Pawc Pocono District | 17,860 | 0 (not detected) |
| E Stroudsburg Boro Water Dept | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tobyhanna Army Depot | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pawc Manwalamink | 3,200 | - |
| Bcra Pocono Jackson System | 2,100 | - |
| Pawc Blue Mt Lake | 1,753 | - |
| Pawc Mid Monroe | 1,580 | - |
| Aqua Pa Hamilton Water Co | 1,500 | - |
| Aqua Pa Mountainhome System | 1,450 | - |
Next steps for Tobyhanna, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tobyhanna, 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 Pawc Penn Estates whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2040 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.