Smithfield Court, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 44.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2022). 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
Smithfield Court serves about 50 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA2450004; phone on file: 570-421-2753. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smithfield Court is 44.7 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 44.7 ppb over 15 |
How Smithfield Court compares
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. Smithfield Court's 44.7 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Monroe County
65 other systems share Monroe County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Smithfield Court. 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) |
| Pawc Penn Estates | 4,300 | 1 ppb |
| 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 | - |
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 Smithfield Court 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.