Cuba Village Public Water, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Cuba Village Public Water at a glance
Cuba Village Public Water serves about 1,800 people through 650 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 Allegany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0200317; phone on file: 585-968-1560. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cuba Village Public Water's lead record
That is down 3.9 ppb from 7.3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cuba Village Public Water is 18 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 7.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 7 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 9.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 9.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 10 ppb |
How Cuba Village Public Water 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. Cuba Village Public Water's 3.4 ppb sits at the 78th percentile in New York and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Allegany County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cuba Village Public Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellsville Village Public Water | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred State College | 3,600 | 1 ppb |
| Alfred University | 2,800 | 3 ppb |
| Houghton Water District | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Bolivar-Richburg Water System | 1,640 | 1.2 ppb |
| Friendship Town Water District | 1,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred Village Water Supply | 1,300 | 3 ppb |
| Andover Village Public Water | 1,130 | 3 ppb |
| Scio Water District | 990 | 1.7 ppb |
| Angelica Village Public Water | 950 | 7 ppb |
Next steps for Cuba, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cuba, 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 Cuba Village Public Water 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.