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Four Seasons Estates MHP

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
98 people
Connections
43
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Mountain Top, PA
County
Luzerne
Owner
Private
Hardness
Soft
The ZIP code it serves

18201

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 2 more are above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from March 5, 2025 to Sept. 17, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 1999.

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.5 ppm, for the period ending June 30, 2013. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from May 26, 2020 to Jan. 21, 2026, 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)5.5 ppt highest, found in 6 of 6 samples. Details
PFOS4.0 pptAbove EPA’s new limit (2029)6.7 ppt highest, found in 6 of 6 samples. Details
PFHxS10 pptBelow EPA’s limits4.4 ppt highest, found in 3 of 3 samples. Details
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 3 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 3 samples
PFBSIndex onlyBelow EPA’s limits1.7 ppt highest, found in 1 of 3 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 the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

19ppb

90th percentile, 1999

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 19 ppb, above EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027, and this result is at or above that. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

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

PFOS

Comes from the source

Above EPA’s new limit (2029)

6.7ppt

Highest sample, Oct. 21, 2025; found in 6 of 6

2026 average: 4.7 ppt

The highest sample was 6.7 ppt, above 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. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 5.3 ppt, for the year to June 30, 2026: below Pennsylvania’s limit of 18 ppt and above EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 4.7 ppt.

What handles it

PFOA

Comes from the source

Above EPA’s new limit (2029)

5.5ppt

Highest sample, Oct. 21, 2025; found in 6 of 6

2026 average: 3.8 ppt

The highest sample was 5.5 ppt, above 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. Averaged over four quarters at one entry point, the way both Pennsylvania’s limit and EPA’s are judged, the highest was 4.3 ppt, for the year to June 30, 2026: below Pennsylvania’s limit of 14 ppt and above EPA’s new limit of 4.0 ppt. In 2026, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 3.8 ppt.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

PFHxS

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.4ppt

Highest sample, Oct. 21, 2025; found in 3 of 3

2025 average: 3.6 ppt

The highest sample was 4.4 ppt, below EPA’s new limit of 10 ppt, which takes effect in 2029. No entry point has four quarters of results in a row to average, the way EPA’s limit is judged. Its only year on file is 2025, when its three samples averaged 3.6 ppt.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.4ppm

Highest sample; found in 4 of 15

2026, one sample: 1.4 ppm

The highest sample, in 2026, was 1.4 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 1.4 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.2 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

1.7ppt

Highest sample, Oct. 21, 2025; found in 1 of 3

2025 average: 0.58 ppt

The highest sample was 1.7 ppt, below EPA’s hazard index benchmark of 2,000 ppt. PFBS has no legal limit or health goal of its own. Its only year on file is 2025, when its three samples averaged 0.58 ppt.

What handles it

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

From routine monitoring

  • Arsenic
  • 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: Lead Reduction, PFOS Reduction, PFOA Reduction

    For: Lead, PFOS, PFOA

    Other certifiers’ wording: Total PFAS Reduction; Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS); Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Lead Reduction, Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)

    For: Lead, PFOS, PFOA

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.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Hardness

Soft, typically 25 mg/L (1.5 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, in 2022.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 1.5 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Pennsylvania water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Groundwater RuleRequired treatment for surface water or groundwater was not met.EPA: Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Nov. 1, 2025 to Nov. 30, 2025—Resolved
Groundwater RuleRequired treatment for surface water or groundwater was not met.EPA: Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)April 1, 2025 to April 30, 2025—Resolved
Groundwater RuleRequired treatment for surface water or groundwater was not met.EPA: Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)July 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 164 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, arsenic, 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. Four Seasons Estates MHP’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 May 26, 2020 to Jan. 21, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from March 5, 2025 to Sept. 17, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Four Seasons Estates MHP’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 Four Seasons Estates MHP serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • HawkMtn Labs Inc

    Hazle Township, PA · about 5 miles

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

    (570) 455-6011

  • A E Kirby Memorial Health Center

    Wilkes-Barre, PA · about 21 miles

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

    (570) 822-4278

  • Eurofins Drinking Water and Wastewater Northeast, LLC

    Pottsville, PA · about 25 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (570) 662-7315

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 PA2400031. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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