Country Colony Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.4 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.
Who runs the water here
Country Colony Estates serves about 125 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ontario County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3417176; phone on file: 585-261-1036. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Country Colony Estates's lead record
That is down 4.1 ppb from 8.5 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Colony Estates is 8.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.5 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. Country Colony Estates's 4.4 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in New York and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
34 other systems share Ontario County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Colony Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Geneva City | 13,334 | 3 ppb |
| Canandaigua-Farmington Consolidated W.D. | 13,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Canandaigua City | 11,264 | 1.2 ppb |
| Mcwa - Geneva | 8,532 | 4 ppb |
| Canandaigua Town Cons. Wd | 6,800 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hopewell Cons Wd 1 | 3,781 | 1.3 ppb |
| Gorham Town Wd | 3,420 | 2.8 ppb |
| Geneva Wd #2 Csa | 2,680 | 2.1 ppb |
| Seneca Town Wd | 2,625 | 2.1 ppb |
| Victor Village | 2,443 | 5800 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Victor, 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 Country Colony Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.