Arcade Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Arcade Village at a glance
Arcade Village serves about 2,630 people through 901 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 Wyoming County, New York. EPA system ID: NY6000608; phone on file: 585-492-1111. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (4.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arcade Village is 4.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.77 ppb |
How Arcade Village 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. Arcade Village's 3.9 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in New York and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Wyoming County
22 other systems share Wyoming County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Arcade Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Warsaw Village | 3,850 | 4.6 ppb |
| Perry Village | 3,673 | 0.37 ppb |
| Attica Village | 2,659 | 1 ppb |
| Attica Correctional | 2,000 | - |
| Wyoming Correctional | 1,600 | - |
| Castile Village | 1,135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Silver Springs Village | 850 | 2.7 ppb |
| Wyoming Village | 490 | 1 ppb |
| Arcade Valley Estates | 450 | - |
| Silver Lake Institute - Castile Wd #1 | 440 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Arcade, 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 Arcade 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.