Delanson Village Water Works, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Delanson Village Water Works serves about 380 people through 126 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 Schenectady County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4600064; phone on file: 518-895-2199. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Delanson Village Water Works's lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Delanson Village Water Works is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Delanson Village Water Works's 3 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in New York and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Schenectady County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Delanson Village Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Schenectady City Water Works | 62,000 | 3 ppb |
| Rotterdam Wd #5 | 28,000 | 0.83 ppb |
| Niskayuna Consolidated Wd #11 | 22,287 | 3 ppb |
| Glenville Wd #11 | 15,000 | 4.1 ppb |
| Scotia Village Water Works | 12,800 | 6.46 ppb |
| Rotterdam Wd #3 | 1,900 | 2 ppb |
| Princetown Water Supply | 900 | 3.35 ppb |
| West Hill Water Company Inc. | 180 | 1 ppb |
| Hillcrest Commons- Frt Section | 64 | 4.5 ppb |
| Hillcrest Commons-Rear Section | 42 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Delanson, 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 Delanson Village Water Works 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.