Birch Hill Water, 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.
About Birch Hill Water
Birch Hill Water serves about 200 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1330021; phone on file: 845-486-3624. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Birch Hill Water's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Birch Hill Water is 15 ppb across 16 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.46 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.15 ppb |
| 2017 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 15 ppb over 10 |
Where this result ranks
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. Birch Hill Water'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.
Other water systems in Dutchess County
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 120 of them have a higher latest lead result than Birch Hill Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poughkeepsie Townwide Wd | 43,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Poughkeepsie City | 30,639 | 2.1 ppb |
| Beacon City | 14,370 | 1.78 ppb |
| United Wappinger Water Improvement Dist. | 14,000 | 5 ppb |
| Hyde Park Regional | 6,928 | 0.8 ppb |
| Rhinebeck Village Water | 6,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Wappingers Falls Village | 5,522 | 2.14 ppb |
| Fishkill Village | 4,101 | 2.1 ppb |
| Brinkerhoff Water District | 3,788 | 7.6 ppb |
| Rombout Water District | 3,000 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Poughkeepsie, NY
Look up your address in Birch Hill Water'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 Birch Hill Water whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2100 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.