Carmel Wd 3, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Carmel Wd 3 at a glance
Carmel Wd 3 serves about 1,350 people through 524 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 Putnam County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3903642; phone on file: 845-628-1500. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carmel Wd 3 is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Carmel Wd 3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in New York and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
97 other systems share Putnam County; 81 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carmel Wd 3. 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 |
| Brewster Heights | 1,350 | 1.5 ppb |
| 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 Mahopac, NY
Look up your address in Carmel Wd 3's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Carmel Wd 3 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.