Covered Bridge Water Works Corporation, NY
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1500 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Covered Bridge Water Works Corporation serves about 600 people through 193 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1330108; phone on file: 845-223-3202. 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 1498.5 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Covered Bridge Water Works Corporation is 1500 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1500 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.34 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. Covered Bridge Water Works Corporation's 1500 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in New York and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dutchess County
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Covered Bridge Water Works Corporation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poughkeepsie Townwide Wd | 43,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Poughkeepsie City | 30,639 | 2.1 ppb |
| Beacon City | 14,370 | 1.78 ppb |
| United Wappinger Water Improvement Dist. | 14,000 | 5 ppb |
| Hyde Park Regional | 6,928 | 0.8 ppb |
| Rhinebeck Village Water | 6,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Wappingers Falls Village | 5,522 | 2.14 ppb |
| Fishkill Village | 4,101 | 2.1 ppb |
| Brinkerhoff Water District | 3,788 | 7.6 ppb |
| Rombout Water District | 3,000 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
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 Covered Bridge Water Works Corporation 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.