Crown Point Wd, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Crown Point Wd at a glance
Crown Point Wd serves about 980 people through 430 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Essex County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1500276; phone on file: 518-891-3035. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.2 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crown Point Wd is 5.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Crown Point Wd's 3 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in New York and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Essex County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crown Point Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Placid V | 5,000 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ticonderoga Wd | 3,700 | 2.1 ppb |
| Moriah Wd | 3,100 | 1.1 ppb |
| Schroon Lake Wd | 2,750 | 1.5 ppb |
| Adirondack Correctional Facility | 2,400 | 3.85 ppb |
| Chesterfield Wd | 2,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Henry Wd | 1,831 | 1.2 ppb |
| Willsboro Wd | 1,571 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bloomingdale Wd | 980 | 1.3 ppb |
| Wilmington Wd | 980 | 5.6 ppb |
Next steps for Crown Point, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crown Point, 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 Crown Point 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. 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.