Continental Village Wd, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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. 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.
Continental Village Wd at a glance
Continental Village Wd serves about 1,509 people through 412 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 surface water, in Putnam County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3903655; phone on file: 845-265-3329. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Continental Village Wd is 7.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.27 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. Continental Village Wd's 4 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in New York and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
97 other systems share Putnam County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Continental Village Wd. 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 |
| 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 |
| Mahopac Water Co | 662 | 6.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cold Spring, 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 Continental Village Wd whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1350 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.