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Pawc Bangor

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

Serves
9,008 people
Connections
3,691
Water source
Surface water
Based in
Clarks Summit, PA
County
Northampton
Owner
Private
The 3 ZIP codes it serves

18013, 18072, 18343

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Pennsylvania’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers PFAS and lithium; nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; and lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

PFAS: Pennsylvania’s own results under its PFAS rule, entry point samples taken from Jan. 25, 2024 to Aug. 19, 2026, with EPA’s UCMR 5 samples, 2025, as the earlier record.

Lithium, and PFAS Pennsylvania didn’t test: EPA UCMR 5, samples taken from Feb. 17, 2025 to Nov. 17, 2025.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium: Pennsylvania’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 11, 2020 to Aug. 19, 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. None of the other 23 PFAS tested for was found either.

EPA’s 2024 PFAS rule, compound by compound

PFASEPA’s limitResult
PFOA4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 15 samples
PFOS4.0 pptNot foundNot found in any of 15 samples
PFHxS10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
PFNA10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
HFPO-DA (GenX)10 pptNot foundNot found in any of 6 samples
PFBSIndex onlyNot foundNot found in any of 6 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, and what EPA’s UCMR 5 samples found before. 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.

Below EPA’s limits3

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 8.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.2 ppb, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 18.3 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 8.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.1 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.8 ppb, in 2026, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 21 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 9.4 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

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

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.1ppm

Highest sample; found in 17 of 17

2026 average: 0.045 ppm

The highest sample, in 2023, was 0.1 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.045 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.19 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
Pennsylvania utilities above EPA’s PFAS limits
35 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)
  • Fluoride
  • Lead
  • Uranium

PFAS, from Pennsylvania’s own monitoring

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

From EPA’s UCMR 5 sampling

  • 11Cl-PF3OUdS
  • 4:2 FTS
  • 6:2 FTS
  • 8:2 FTS
  • 9Cl-PF3ONS
  • ADONA
  • Lithium
  • NEtFOSAA
  • NFDHA
  • NMeFOSAA
  • PFBA
  • PFDA
  • PFDoA
  • PFEESA
  • PFHpA
  • PFHpS
  • PFHxA
  • PFMBA
  • PFMPA
  • PFPeA
  • PFPeS
  • PFTA
  • PFTrDA
  • PFUnA

Disinfectant

Pawc Bangor reported disinfecting with chlorine, not chloramine, at all 2 of its sampling points, in its 2025 sampling for EPA.

Chlorine leaves water that sits out for a few days, CDC says. A filter certified for it carries a chlorine claim under NSF/ANSI 42; a shower filter, a free chlorine claim under NSF/ANSI 177. This is what the utility reported for that sampling. Its annual water quality report says what it uses now.

Chlorine vs. chloramineShower filters, by what their listings cover

Violations since 2016

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

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and uranium results here are Pennsylvania’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Pawc Bangor’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 samples are from Feb. 17, 2025 to Nov. 17, 2025; Pennsylvania’s results run from Feb. 11, 2020 to Aug. 19, 2026; Pennsylvania’s PFAS results run from Jan. 25, 2024 to Aug. 19, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Pawc Bangor’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 Pawc Bangor serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Philadelphia - Wind Gap

    Wind Gap, PA · about 7 miles

    (215) 355-3900

  • ABE Laboratories LLC

    Bath, PA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (610) 837-7721

  • Analytical Laboratories, Inc

    Telford, PA · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (215) 723-6466

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 PA3480038. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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