Alfred State College, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Alfred State College at a glance
Alfred State College serves about 3,600 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Allegany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0220581; phone on file: 607-587-4750. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alfred State College is 90 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 7 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 90 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 12.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 1.59 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. Alfred State College's 1 ppb sits at the 37th percentile in New York and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Allegany County
20 other systems share Allegany County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alfred State College. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellsville Village Public Water | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred University | 2,800 | 3 ppb |
| Houghton Water District | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Cuba Village Public Water | 1,800 | 3.4 ppb |
| Bolivar-Richburg Water System | 1,640 | 1.2 ppb |
| Friendship Town Water District | 1,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred Village Water Supply | 1,300 | 3 ppb |
| Andover Village Public Water | 1,130 | 3 ppb |
| Scio Water District | 990 | 1.7 ppb |
| Angelica Village Public Water | 950 | 7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alfred, 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 Alfred State College whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 4400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.