Brettview Acres Water Co, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Brettview Acres Water Co
Brettview Acres Water Co serves about 1,150 people through 333 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1302762; phone on file: 845-221-4303. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (5.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brettview Acres Water Co is 32 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 32 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.4 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. Brettview Acres Water Co's 5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brettview Acres Water Co. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hopewell Jctn, 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 Brettview Acres Water Co 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.