Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd
Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd serves about 60 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Saratoga County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4530254; phone on file: 518-383-1122. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd is 128 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 10.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 10 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 128 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
How Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd compares
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. Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd's 1 ppb sits at the 27th percentile in New York and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Saratoga County
70 other systems share Saratoga County; 31 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clifton Park Water Authority | 35,000 | 1 ppb |
| Saratoga Springs City | 26,525 | 3.4 ppb |
| Halfmoon Water District (Troy) | 15,000 | 2.4 ppb |
| Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk Wd | 10,000 | 2 ppb |
| Waterford Water Works (Purchase Troy) | 9,800 | 3.93 ppb |
| Wilton Water & Sewer Authority | 9,490 | 3.96 ppb |
| Malta Water District #1 | 8,950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Moreau Wd #2 (Queensbury) | 6,600 | 3 ppb |
| Ballston Spa Village | 6,541 | 2.7 ppb |
| Mechanicville City | 5,200 | 2.52 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clifton Park, 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 Cpwa Route 146a Ballston Wd 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.