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Chase Manor Water Assoc

What EPA’s and Pennsylvania’s records show in this utility’s water: PFAS; nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
95 people
Connections
40
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Shavertown, PA
County
Luzerne
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

18708

The short answer

2 results are above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, and 2 more are above the health goal. The worst: PFOS, above EPA’s new limit (2029). No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from March 17, 2025 to Sept. 16, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 1995.

Arsenic, nitrate, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 2, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: PFOS, PFOA, PFHxS and PFBS were found, of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule; their results are below.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptAbove EPA’s new limit (2029)8.9 ppt highest, found in 2 of 5 samples. Details
PFOS4.0 pptAbove EPA’s new limit (2029)19.4 ppt highest, found in 4 of 5 samples. Details
PFHxS10 pptAt EPA’s limit, as EPA rounds12.2 ppt highest, found in 1 of 5 samples. Details
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFBSIndex onlyBelow EPA’s limits4.3 ppt highest, found in 1 of 5 samples. Details
Results from Pennsylvania’s own PFAS monitoring, samples where water enters the pipes; each compound’s card has its four-quarter averages, the way limits are judged. The limits are EPA’s 2024 rule, with compliance due from 2029; EPA has since proposed changes to some of them, explained on each compound’s page. Pennsylvania’s own limits for PFOA and PFOS are in force now. PFBS has no limit of its own and counts only toward EPA’s Hazard Index, which TapBuff works out only from UCMR 5’s averages, so it isn’t given here.

About PFAS certifications

NSF’s PFAS claims are tested to below 20 ppt. EPA’s limit is 4.0 ppt, and EPA says no certification yet shows a filter reaching its levels.

Above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 20292

PFOS

Comes from the source

Above EPA’s new limit (2029)

19.4ppt

Highest sample, Sept. 16, 2026; found in 4 of 5

2026 average: 10.9 ppt

The highest sample was 19.4 ppt, about 4.9 times EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. EPA’s health goal is zero. Compliance will be judged on a running annual average, not one sample. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 10.9 ppt.

What handles it

PFOA

Comes from the source

Above EPA’s new limit (2029)

8.9ppt

Highest sample, Sept. 16, 2026; found in 2 of 5

2026 average: 4.4 ppt

The highest sample was 8.9 ppt, about twice EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. EPA’s health goal is zero. Compliance will be judged on a running annual average, not one sample. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 4.4 ppt.

What handles it

Above the health goal2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

5.0ppb

90th percentile, 1995

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 5.0 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

2.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.8 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.0 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits3

PFHxS

Comes from the source

At EPA’s limit, as EPA rounds

12.2ppt

Highest sample, Sept. 16, 2026; found in 1 of 5

2026 average: 6.1 ppt

The highest sample was 12.2 ppt. As EPA rounds results, that is at EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt, which takes effect in 2029, not above it: EPA counts a result as above it from 15 ppt. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way EPA’s limit is judged. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 6.1 ppt.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.7ppm

Highest sample; found in 5 of 6

2025: not found

The highest sample, in 2021, was 2.7 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 2.6 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

PFBS

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.3ppt

Highest sample, Sept. 16, 2026; found in 1 of 5

2026 average: 2.1 ppt

The highest sample was 4.3 ppt, below EPA’s hazard index benchmark of 2,000 ppt. PFBS has no legal limit or health goal of its own. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 2.1 ppt.

What handles it

7 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • PFNA

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: PFOS Reduction, PFOA Reduction, Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: PFOS, PFOA, Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Total PFAS Reduction; Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS); Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA); Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA), Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: PFOS, PFOA, Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 47 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Chase Manor Water Assoc’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Pennsylvania’s results run from Jan. 2, 2020 to Sept. 1, 2025; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 17, 2025 to Sept. 16, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Chase Manor Water Assoc’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Pennsylvania certifies.

The 3 labs Pennsylvania certifies closest to the area Chase Manor Water Assoc serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • A E Kirby Memorial Health Center

    Wilkes-Barre, PA · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (570) 822-4278

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Pittston

    Pittston, PA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (570) 348-0775

  • Princeton Analytical Labs

    Dunmore, PA · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (570) 209-7916

Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory: Drinking water test kits from many county Extension offices, mailed back to the lab overnight with payment. Packages cover bacteria and basic chemistry, with add-ons for nitrate, metals, lead, and mining or gas drilling concerns. The standard package of bacteria, pH and total dissolved solids is $60, or $70 with nitrate; bacteria alone is $40, nitrate $15 and lead $25. Drinking Water Testing, Penn State Agricultural Analytical Services Lab.

All 108 certified labs for Pennsylvania

Sources

PWSID PA2400017. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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