Schuylkill Co Mun Auth, PA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 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 Schuylkill Co Mun Auth
Schuylkill Co Mun Auth serves about 31,850 people through 10,473 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3540038; phone on file: 570-622-8240. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Schuylkill Co Mun Auth is 8.13 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 8.13 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. Schuylkill Co Mun Auth's 1.1 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Schuylkill County
38 other systems share Schuylkill County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Schuylkill Co Mun Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Pa Amer Water Co Frackville | 5,583 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ashland Area Water Authority | 4,200 | 2 ppb |
| Hegins Hubley Authority | 3,870 | 2.09 ppb |
Next steps for Pottsville, PA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pottsville, 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 Schuylkill Co Mun Auth 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. 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.