Alfred Village Water Supply, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Alfred Village Water Supply at a glance
Alfred Village Water Supply serves about 1,300 people through 680 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 Allegany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0200309; phone on file: 607-587-9188. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.1 ppb from 4.1 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alfred Village Water Supply is 13 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 10.87 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.2 ppb |
Against other New York systems
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 Village Water Supply's 3 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in New York and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Allegany County
20 other systems share Allegany County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alfred Village Water Supply. 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 State College | 3,600 | 1 ppb |
| 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) |
| Andover Village Public Water | 1,130 | 3 ppb |
| Scio Water District | 990 | 1.7 ppb |
| Angelica Village Public Water | 950 | 7 ppb |
Next steps for Alfred, NY
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 Village Water Supply 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.