Andover Village Public Water, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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.
Andover Village Public Water at a glance
Andover Village Public Water serves about 1,130 people through 545 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: NY0200311; phone on file: 585-808-2617. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Andover Village Public Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Andover Village Public Water is 15 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
How Andover Village Public Water compares
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. Andover Village Public Water'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 Andover Village Public Water. 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) |
| Alfred Village Water Supply | 1,300 | 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; Andover, 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 Andover Village Public Water whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.