Country Meadows Mhp, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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. 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 Meadows Mhp
Country Meadows Mhp serves about 122 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cortland County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1100632; phone on file: 607-844-3584. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Meadows Mhp is 3.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.9 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 Meadows Mhp's 0.5 ppb sits at the 20th percentile in New York and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cortland County
22 other systems share Cortland County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Meadows Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cortland (C) | 20,095 | 5 ppb |
| Homer Village-Newton Water Works | 4,368 | 2 ppb |
| Cortlandville Town Water | 4,300 | 3 ppb |
| Virgil W.D. #1 - Greek Peak Waterworks | 1,400 | 6.9 ppb |
| Mcgraw Village | 1,306 | 12.1 ppb |
| Marathon Village | 1,107 | 2.2 ppb |
| Cincinnatus Water District | 650 | 3.4 ppb |
| Pine Hill Mobile, Inc. | 253 | 1 ppb |
| Scott Water District No. 1 | 154 | 2.1 ppb |
| Riverside Manor Trailer Park | 131 | 2.8 ppb |
Next steps for Ithaca, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ithaca, 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 Meadows Mhp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.