Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk, NY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.15 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk serves about 208 people through 64 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 Orange County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3503595; phone on file: 845-783-1900. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.7 ppb from 14.85 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk is 85 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 11.15 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 14.85 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 1.06 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.99 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 85 ppb over 15 |
How Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk 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. Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk's 11.15 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in New York and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
129 other systems share Orange County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kiryas Joel | 51,623 | 9 ppb |
| Middletown City | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| Newburgh City | 29,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Windsor Consolidated Wd | 25,667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newburgh Consolidated Wd | 22,282 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wallkill Consolidated Wd | 18,450 | 1.97 ppb |
| Monroe Village | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Woodbury Cons. W.D. | 10,845 | 8.5 ppb |
| Cornwall-On-Hudson | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Port Jervis City | 9,000 | 3.04 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blooming Grove, 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 Blooming Grove Wd #3-Tomahawk whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.