Crystal Springs Water Company, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Crystal Springs Water Company at a glance
Crystal Springs Water Company serves about 100 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oneida County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3202420; phone on file: 315-827-4389. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Crystal Springs Water Company's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crystal Springs Water Company is 31.65 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 31.65 ppb over 15 |
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. Crystal Springs Water Company's 1 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in New York and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
42 other systems share Oneida County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crystal Springs Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mvwa - Mohawk Valley Water Authority | 126,250 | 9 ppb |
| Rome City | 31,795 | 5 ppb |
| Lee Water District | 3,150 | 1 ppb |
| Sherrill - Kenwood Wd | 3,142 | - |
| Clinton Village | 3,000 | 3 ppb |
| Camden Village (Gu) | 2,800 | 1 ppb |
| Sauquoit Consolidated Wd (T/O/Paris) | 2,700 | 2 ppb |
| Hamilton College Wd | 2,672 | 1 ppb |
| Verona Wd (Rte 365 + Hamlet) | 2,345 | - |
| Boonville Village | 2,300 | 4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ava, 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 Crystal Springs Water Company 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.