Cherry Creek Town, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.15 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Cherry Creek Town serves about 440 people through 243 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Chautauqua County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0600358; phone on file: 716-296-8050. 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 5.75 ppb from 6.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherry Creek Town is 6.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.15 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. Cherry Creek Town's 1.15 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in New York and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Chautauqua County
49 other systems share Chautauqua County; 34 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherry Creek Town. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown Bpu | 46,712 | 3.2 ppb |
| Dunkirk City | 12,743 | 9.7 ppb |
| Fredonia Village | 9,585 | 6.1 ppb |
| Chautauqua Utility District | 9,000 | 7.6 ppb |
| Westfield Village And Town | 3,890 | 1 ppb |
| Silver Creek Village | 3,100 | 0.27 ppb |
| North Chautauqua County Water District | 3,100 | 1.9 ppb |
| Brocton Portland Water District | 3,086 | 8.7 ppb |
| Carroll (T) Water District | 2,600 | 2.18 ppb |
| Hanover Wd #1 5&20 Slvr Crk To Catt Crk | 2,173 | 4.07 ppb |
Next steps for Cherry Creek, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cherry Creek, 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 Cherry Creek Town 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.