Conifer Water District, NY
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15.1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Conifer Water District at a glance
Conifer Water District serves about 80 people through 34 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 St. Lawrence County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4417731; phone on file: 518-359-3664. 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 up 14.1 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Conifer Water District is 15.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 15.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Conifer Water District 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. Conifer Water District's 15.1 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New York and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share St. Lawrence County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Conifer Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Massena Village | 16,729 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ogdensburg City | 10,064 | 1.4 ppb |
| Potsdam Village | 8,312 | 7.8 ppb |
| Canton Village | 7,055 | 2.8 ppb |
| Gouverneur | 4,263 | 2.25 ppb |
| East Louisville Water District | 3,235 | 1.1 ppb |
| Norfolk Water District | 2,300 | 1 ppb |
| Norwood | 1,685 | 1 ppb |
| Star Lake Water District | 1,250 | 2 ppb |
| Waddington Village | 944 | 4.3 ppb |
Next steps for Piercefield, NY
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Conifer 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.