Deposit (V) Water Department, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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 Deposit (V) Water Department
Deposit (V) Water Department serves about 2,080 people through 800 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 Broome County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0301663; phone on file: 607-467-4351. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Deposit (V) Water Department is 10.6 ppb across 19 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 10.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.44 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.88 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.2 ppb |
How Deposit (V) Water Department 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. Deposit (V) Water Department's 1 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in New York and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
57 other systems share Broome County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Deposit (V) Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Binghamton, City Of | 47,600 | 1 ppb |
| Endicott Municipal Water Works | 45,000 | 4 ppb |
| Vestal Consolidated W.D. #1 | 22,200 | 1 ppb |
| Johnson City Water Works | 16,578 | 2 ppb |
| Chenango Consolidated Wd #1 | 9,200 | 2 ppb |
| Conklin Water System | 2,654 | 1 ppb |
| Binghamton (T) Consolidated Wd | 2,600 | 1.3 ppb |
| Kirkwood Consolidated Wd #1 | 2,600 | 1 ppb |
| Hillcrest Wd #1 | 2,100 | 1 ppb |
| Port Dickinson Village | 1,785 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Deposit, 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 Deposit (V) Water Department whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1770 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.