Craneridge Water Supply, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.85 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. 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 Craneridge Water Supply
Craneridge Water Supply serves about 360 people through 177 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Erie County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1430017; phone on file: 716-934-2658. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Craneridge Water Supply's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.55 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Craneridge Water Supply is 9.47 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.85 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.69 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.63 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.73 ppb |
| 2019 | 9.47 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.85 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.09 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.73 ppb |
How Craneridge Water Supply 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. Craneridge Water Supply's 0.85 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in New York and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Erie County
43 other systems share Erie County; 36 of them have a higher latest lead result than Craneridge Water Supply. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ecwa Direct | 313,380 | 6 ppb |
| Buffalo Water Authority | 276,000 | 3 ppb |
| Ecwa Amherst | 92,697 | 9.85 ppb |
| Tonawanda, Town Water Dept. | 72,571 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Lancaster | 29,018 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa Orchard Park | 24,582 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa West Seneca | 23,557 | 9.85 ppb |
| Grand Island Town Water Dept. | 19,500 | 1.13 ppb |
| Kenmore Village | 15,423 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Evans | 12,338 | 7.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Silver Creek, 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 Craneridge Water Supply 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.