Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu), NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu)
Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu) serves about 450 people through 145 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Oneida County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3202387; phone on file: 315-841-8525. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu)'s lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu) is 1.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.55 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.1 ppb |
How Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu) 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. Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu)'s 1 ppb sits at the 33rd percentile in New York and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Oneida County
42 other systems share Oneida County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu). 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Deansboro, 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 Deansboro Water District (Sw/Gu) 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.