Ashland Water District, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Ashland Water District at a glance
Ashland Water District serves about 200 people through 81 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Greene County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1930097; phone on file: 518-734-3636. 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 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ashland Water District is 9 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 9 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 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. Ashland Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in New York and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
33 other systems share Greene County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ashland Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Catskill Village | 8,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Coxsackie Village | 4,010 | 1 ppb |
| Coxsackie Correctional Facility | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. | 2,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Athens Village | 1,700 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cairo Water District | 1,400 | 3 ppb |
| Greenville Water District No 1 | 1,100 | 3 ppb |
| Hunter Village | 1,030 | 11.2 ppb |
| Ski Windham | 856 | 3 ppb |
| Tannersville Village | 629 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Ashland Water District's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ashland Water District 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.