Scma Orwigsburg Consecutive, PA
No lead results on file with EPA
Latest 90th-percentile lead: no result on file. The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. EPA's database has no Lead and Copper Rule results for this system. Without them there is nothing to go on, so a tap test is the only way to know.
About Scma Orwigsburg Consecutive
Scma Orwigsburg Consecutive serves about 500 people through 515 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA3540075; phone on file: 570-622-8240. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Schuylkill County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Schuylkill Co Mun Auth | 31,850 | 1.1 ppb |
| 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 |
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 Scma Orwigsburg Consecutive 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.