Collins Wd #3, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.34 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
About Collins Wd #3
Collins Wd #3 serves about 760 people through 189 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 Erie County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1400430; phone on file: 716-532-4874. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Collins Wd #3's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.15 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Collins Wd #3 is 3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.34 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.15 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Collins Wd #3 compares
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. Collins Wd #3's 2.34 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in New York and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Erie County
43 other systems share Erie County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Collins Wd #3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ecwa Direct | 313,380 | 6 ppb |
| Buffalo Water Authority | 276,000 | 3 ppb |
| Ecwa Amherst | 92,697 | 9.85 ppb |
| Tonawanda, Town Water Dept. | 72,571 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Lancaster | 29,018 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa Orchard Park | 24,582 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa West Seneca | 23,557 | 9.85 ppb |
| Grand Island Town Water Dept. | 19,500 | 1.13 ppb |
| Kenmore Village | 15,423 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Evans | 12,338 | 7.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Collins, 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 Collins Wd #3 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.