Country Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2030). 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 Country Estates
Country Estates serves about 95 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1006330; phone on file: 518-392-1424. 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 Country Estates is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2030 | 1 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. Country Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in New York and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Columbia County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hudson City | 6,750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenport Wd No1 | 4,050 | 2.4 ppb |
| Chatham Village | 2,156 | 2.5 ppb |
| Valatie Village | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Stockport Wd #2 (Consolidated) | 2,000 | 3.5 ppb |
| Philmont Village | 1,483 | 3 ppb |
| Kinderhook Village | 1,385 | 1 ppb |
| Taconic Shores | 950 | 1 ppb |
| Mount Ida (Greenport) | 485 | 1 ppb |
| Darrow Lakeside Campus | 420 | 6 ppb |
Next steps for Chatham, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chatham, 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 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.