Devans Gate Senior Housing, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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 Devans Gate Senior Housing
Devans Gate Senior Housing serves about 96 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3530193; phone on file: 845-708-5797. 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 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Devans Gate Senior Housing is 12.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.2 ppb |
How Devans Gate Senior Housing 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. Devans Gate Senior Housing's 1 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in New York and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
129 other systems share Orange County; 85 of them have a higher latest lead result than Devans Gate Senior Housing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kiryas Joel | 51,623 | 9 ppb |
| Middletown City | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| Newburgh City | 29,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Windsor Consolidated Wd | 25,667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newburgh Consolidated Wd | 22,282 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wallkill Consolidated Wd | 18,450 | 1.97 ppb |
| Monroe Village | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Woodbury Cons. W.D. | 10,845 | 8.5 ppb |
| Cornwall-On-Hudson | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Port Jervis City | 9,000 | 3.04 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New City, 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 Devans Gate Senior Housing whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1610 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. 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.