Alden Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Alden Village
Alden Village serves about 2,666 people through 992 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Erie County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1400398; phone on file: 716-380-1593. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alden Village is 5.9 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 2,077 New York systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.5 ppb; 17 are over 15 ppb right now and 165 have gone over at some point. Alden Village's 3.3 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in New York and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
43 other systems share Erie County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alden Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ecwa Direct | 313,380 | 6 ppb |
| Buffalo Water Authority | 276,000 | 3 ppb |
| Ecwa Amherst | 92,697 | 9.85 ppb |
| Tonawanda, Town Water Dept. | 72,571 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Lancaster | 29,018 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa Orchard Park | 24,582 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa West Seneca | 23,557 | 9.85 ppb |
| Grand Island Town Water Dept. | 19,500 | 1.13 ppb |
| Kenmore Village | 15,423 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Evans | 12,338 | 7.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alden, NY may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alden Village whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.