Clarksville Water District, 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.
Who runs the water here
Clarksville Water District serves about 430 people through 151 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 Albany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0130000; phone on file: 518-439-4865. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Clarksville Water District's lead record
That is up 3 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clarksville Water District is 16.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 16.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Clarksville Water District's 5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
34 other systems share Albany County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clarksville Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albany City | 98,000 | 13 ppb |
| Latham Water District | 85,590 | 2 ppb |
| Bethlehem Wd No 1 | 31,000 | 1.02 ppb |
| Guilderland Town Wd | 30,000 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cohoes City | 18,447 | 1.3 ppb |
| Watervliet City | 9,889 | 2 ppb |
| Colonie Village | 8,030 | 1 ppb |
| Menands Village | 4,500 | 3 ppb |
| Ravena Village | 4,500 | 1 ppb |
| Voorheesville Village | 3,100 | 6 ppb |
Next steps for Slingerlands, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Slingerlands, 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 Clarksville Water District 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.