Candor Landing, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2016-2024). 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.
Candor Landing at a glance
Candor Landing serves about 99 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Tioga County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5301424; phone on file: 315-677-5444. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 35.3 ppb from 35.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Candor Landing is 35.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 35.3 ppb over 15 |
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. Candor Landing's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in New York and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Tioga County
29 other systems share Tioga County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Candor Landing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Of Owego | 4,850 | 2.4 ppb |
| Waverly Village | 4,830 | 3.3 ppb |
| Owego Wd #4 | 3,196 | 0 (not detected) |
| Owego Wd #2 | 2,754 | 1.6 ppb |
| Owego Wd #3 | 2,150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Newark Valley | 896 | 2.6 ppb |
| Candor Village Water Dept. | 800 | 2.85 ppb |
| Nichols Town | 725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Owego Wd #1 | 715 | 3.1 ppb |
| Veolia Of Nichols | 613 | 2.45 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lafayette, 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 Candor Landing 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.