Eldorado Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Eldorado Estates
Eldorado Estates serves about 264 people through 131 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Volusia County, New York. EPA system ID: FL3640336; phone on file: 813-440-7650. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (4.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eldorado Estates is 5.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
How Eldorado Estates 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. Eldorado Estates's 5.1 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for New York, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New York, 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 Eldorado Estates 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.