The Gardens At Orangeville, PA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 74.35 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.
About The Gardens At Orangeville
The Gardens At Orangeville serves about 118 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. EPA system ID: PA4190285; phone on file: 570-683-5036. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Gardens At Orangeville is 74.35 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 74.35 ppb over 15 |
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. The Gardens At Orangeville's 74.35 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Pennsylvania and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Columbia County
16 other systems share Columbia County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Gardens At Orangeville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Water Pa Inc Bloomsburg | 29,382 | 8 ppb |
| Pa American Water Berwick | 15,282 | 0.9 ppb |
| Catawissa Municipal Water Auth | 1,644 | - |
| Benton Municipal Water Auth | 1,333 | - |
| Aqua Pa Mifflin Township | 1,220 | - |
| Millville Municipal Authority | 969 | - |
| Orangeville Municipal Water Au | 508 | - |
| Brookside Village Mhp | 475 | - |
| Veolia Water Pa Inc Ccip | 419 | - |
| Wonderview Water Co | 350 | - |
Next steps for Orangeville, PA
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 The Gardens At Orangeville whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1450 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. 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.