Roamingwood Sewer And Water, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.38 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.
Who runs the water here
Roamingwood Sewer And Water serves about 3,775 people through 3,342 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2640025; phone on file: 570-698-6162. 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 2022 (2.16 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Roamingwood Sewer And Water is 6.59 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.38 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.16 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.59 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.8 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. Roamingwood Sewer And Water's 2.38 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wayne County
37 other systems share Wayne County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Roamingwood Sewer And Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Pa Water Co Honesdale | 5,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Sci Waymart | 3,200 | - |
| Wallenpaupack Lake Estates | 2,200 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Hawley | 1,800 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Waymart | 1,100 | - |
| Pa Amer Water Co Indian Rocks | 1,100 | - |
| Aqua Pa Paupackan Lake Estates | 800 | - |
| Lake Wallenpaupack Sandy Shore | 499 | - |
| Hamlin Water Company | 400 | - |
| Aqua Pa Water Co Gouldsboro | 350 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Ariel, 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 Roamingwood Sewer And Water 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.