Crescent Meadow Apt Community, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Crescent Meadow Apt Community serves about 30 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Lawrence County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4430128; phone on file: 315-854-0775. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Crescent Meadow Apt Community's lead record
That is down 1.3 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crescent Meadow Apt Community is 141.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 141.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 141.3 ppb over 15 |
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. Crescent Meadow Apt Community's 1 ppb sits at the 25th percentile in New York and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
38 other systems share St. Lawrence County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crescent Meadow Apt Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Massena Village | 16,729 | 1.5 ppb |
| Ogdensburg City | 10,064 | 1.4 ppb |
| Potsdam Village | 8,312 | 7.8 ppb |
| Canton Village | 7,055 | 2.8 ppb |
| Gouverneur | 4,263 | 2.25 ppb |
| East Louisville Water District | 3,235 | 1.1 ppb |
| Norfolk Water District | 2,300 | 1 ppb |
| Norwood | 1,685 | 1 ppb |
| Star Lake Water District | 1,250 | 2 ppb |
| Waddington Village | 944 | 4.3 ppb |
Next steps for Rensselaer Falls, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rensselaer Falls, 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 Crescent Meadow Apt Community 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.