Clearing In The Woods, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2021). 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.
Clearing In The Woods at a glance
Clearing In The Woods serves about 162 people through 61 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: NY3903709; phone on file: 914-234-0300. 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 Clearing In The Woods is 5.4 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5.4 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. Clearing In The Woods's 5.4 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in New York and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
97 other systems share Putnam County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clearing In The Woods. 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 |
Next steps for Yorktown Heights, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Yorktown Heights, 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 Clearing In The Woods 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.