Between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, still your tap
City Water Filtration in Pittston
Pittston sits between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre and inherits both systems’ reputation — including a hard-water story the utility’s published numbers quietly contradict. City supply here is officially soft. The everyday complaint is chlorine taste, plus sediment after main work and a lead question in pre-1986 housing. Filtration is carbon, not a default softener. Township wells in Jenkins and Pittston Township are a different job.
River-adjacent blocks can cloud after heavy rain. That is usually stirred mains on city supply — and a bacteria warning if you are actually on a well. We start by which water you have. Greater Pittston’s older housing shares the valley’s lead-era plumbing question, answered by a sample, not a guess.
The lore says hard. The report says soft.
Pennsylvania American Water’s valley figures put hardness around 23–48 ppm — roughly 1.3–2.8 grains per gallon, officially soft. A softener is rarely worth it on Pittston city water, and we will say so. Hardness around here is a private-well story in the townships. Anyone quoting resin without a test is quoting folklore.
City tap vs. Jenkins Township well
Outlying homes often run wells with iron, variable hardness, and occasional sulfur. That is air-injection and maybe a softener, designed from a well panel. Copying a Downtown Pittston carbon design onto that well — or the reverse — is how equipment gets orphaned in a basement. The free visit names the supply first.
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Problems this system solves
The payoff
Why NEPA homeowners choose this system
Municipal design when you are on the plant
Carbon, sediment, kitchen RO — not a well package.
Well design when you have a pressure tank
Iron, hardness, sulfur as the panel requires.
Honest about the soft supply
We will not sell valley city water a Clarks Summit softener.
Free Pittston-area tap test
Hardness, chlorine, iron, TDS. Plain English.
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