Blue Mt Lake Wd, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Blue Mt Lake Wd
Blue Mt Lake Wd serves about 400 people through 150 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 surface water, in Hamilton County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2000135; phone on file: 518-648-5885. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blue Mt Lake Wd is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
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. Blue Mt Lake Wd's 2 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in New York and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Hamilton County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Blue Mt Lake Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Speculator V | 2,008 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indian Lake Wd | 900 | 3 ppb |
| Long Lake Wd | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wells Wd | 450 | 1.55 ppb |
| Raquette Lake Wd | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rocky Point Homeowners Assn | 80 | 0.7 ppb |
Next steps for Indian Lake, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Indian Lake, 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 Blue Mt Lake Wd 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.