Davenport Water District, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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. 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
Davenport Water District serves about 600 people through 48 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 Delaware County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1200255; phone on file: 607-278-5600. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Davenport Water District is 16.5 ppb across 25 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 16.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 5 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. Davenport Water District's 2.4 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in New York and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Delaware County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Davenport Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Delhi Village | 3,833 | 8.8 ppb |
| Sidney Village | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walton Village | 3,010 | 0.7 ppb |
| Stamford Village | 1,280 | 1.8 ppb |
| Hancock Village | 1,182 | 3 ppb |
| Hobart Village | 700 | 3 ppb |
| Margaretville Village | 650 | 1.5 ppb |
| Downsville Water District | 617 | 1.5 ppb |
| Roxbury Water District | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Village | 481 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Davenport Center, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Davenport Center, 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 Davenport Water District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1410 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.