Cazenovia Village, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 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.
Cazenovia Village at a glance
Cazenovia Village serves about 2,900 people through 908 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 Madison County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2602371; phone on file: 315-655-3041. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cazenovia Village's lead record
That is up 4 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cazenovia Village is 20 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 5 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. Cazenovia Village's 5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Madison County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cazenovia Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oneida City | 11,393 | 1 ppb |
| Hamilton Village | 4,107 | 3 ppb |
| Morrisville State College | 2,620 | 2.9 ppb |
| Morrisville Village | 2,199 | 5 ppb |
| Suburbans Community Mhp | 655 | 1.7 ppb |
| Stockbridge Water District | 600 | - |
| Cazenovia/Nelson Purchase District | 595 | - |
| Deruyter Village | 558 | 1.1 ppb |
| Earlville Village | 545 | 3.3 ppb |
| New Woodstock | 460 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Cazenovia, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cazenovia, 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 Cazenovia Village 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.