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Paw Wildcat Park

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
73 people
Connections
27
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Berwick, PA
County
Schuylkill
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

18252

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Lead, above the action level. 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 Jan. 8, 2025 to Jan. 8, 2026.

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1993 to 2016.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from April 6, 2020 to April 6, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

PFAS: None of the six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 drinking water rule was found in this utility’s samples.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in any of 5 samples
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.

Above the legal limit1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

43.5ppb

90th percentile, 2016

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 43.5 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

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025, one sample: 1.6 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.3 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.6 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.3 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.1ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.1 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.5 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. 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 yearly average of 1.4 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.22ppm

Highest sample; found in 7 of 7

2026, one sample: 0.09 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.22 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its one sample was 0.09 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.2 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
9 compounds tested and not foundIncluding all six PFAS in EPA’s 2024 rule. Below the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

From routine monitoring

  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

  • HFPO-DA (GenX)
  • PFBS
  • PFHxS
  • PFNA
  • PFOA
  • PFOS

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.”

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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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Paw Wildcat Park’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 April 6, 2020 to April 6, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Jan. 8, 2025 to Jan. 8, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Paw Wildcat Park’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 Paw Wildcat Park 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 13 miles

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

    (570) 455-6011

  • Eurofins Drinking Water and Wastewater Northeast, LLC

    Pottsville, PA · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (570) 662-7315

  • SPL - Reading

    Reading, PA · about 26 miles

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

    (610) 375-8378

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 PA3540053. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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