Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc at a glance
Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc serves about 50 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Warren County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5630038; phone on file: 518-494-3721. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc's lead record
That is down 11.7 ppb from 13 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc is 13 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc's 1.3 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in New York and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Warren County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Queensbury Water District | 24,450 | 3 ppb |
| Glens Falls City | 14,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warrensburg Water District | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Luzerne Water District | 2,500 | 2.5 ppb |
| Bolton Water District | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake George Village | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Creek Water District | 1,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chestertown Water District | 885 | 3.9 ppb |
| Ledgeview Village | 680 | 3.1 ppb |
| Diamond Point Water District | 493 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glens Falls, 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 Balsam Crest Homeowners Assoc 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.