Carpenter Trailer Park, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.15 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 Carpenter Trailer Park
Carpenter Trailer Park serves about 100 people through 55 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3915411; phone on file: 917-704-7847. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carpenter Trailer Park is 2.15 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.15 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. Carpenter Trailer Park's 2.15 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in New York and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
97 other systems share Putnam County; 52 of them have a higher latest lead result than Carpenter Trailer Park. 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) |
| 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mahopac, 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 Carpenter Trailer Park 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.