Castle Point Medical Center, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.2 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 Castle Point Medical Center
Castle Point Medical Center serves about 1,500 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws surface water, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1319255; phone on file: 914-737-4400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.7 ppb from 10.9 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Castle Point Medical Center is 49.9 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 49.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 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. Castle Point Medical Center's 8.2 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in New York and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dutchess County
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Castle Point Medical Center. 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; Wappingers Falls, 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 Castle Point Medical Center 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.