Brewster Heights, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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.
About Brewster Heights
Brewster Heights serves about 1,350 people through 397 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 surface water, in Putnam County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3905680; phone on file: 845-279-2196. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Brewster Heights's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brewster Heights is 1.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 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. Brewster Heights's 1.5 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in New York and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
97 other systems share Putnam County; 60 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brewster Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel Wd 2 | 5,000 | 6.9 ppb |
| Cold Spring Village | 2,666 | 1.7 ppb |
| Brewster Village | 2,162 | 7.9 ppb |
| Continental Village Wd | 1,509 | 4 ppb |
| Mount Ebo Ws | 1,500 | 2.1 ppb |
| Carmel Wd 3 | 1,350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Watchtower Bible Tract Society | 1,251 | 0.4 ppb |
| Carmel Wd 8 | 1,000 | 1 ppb |
| Hunters Glen Condominium Ws | 875 | 1.5 ppb |
| Mahopac Water Co | 662 | 6.4 ppb |
Next steps for Brewster, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brewster, 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 Brewster Heights 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.