Evans Mills Village, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Evans Mills Village
Evans Mills Village serves about 644 people through 200 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 Jefferson County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2202338. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.3 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Evans Mills Village is 37.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 8.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 37.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 14.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 15.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 5.2 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. Evans Mills Village's 2.2 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in New York and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
56 other systems share Jefferson County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Evans Mills Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Drum | 34,000 | 0.4 ppb |
| Watertown City | 27,861 | 6.3 ppb |
| Leray Town Wd 1, 2, 4 | 7,140 | 3.3 ppb |
| Carthage Village | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5 | 2,600 | - |
| Sackets Harbor Village | 2,200 | 1.2 ppb |
| Clayton Village | 2,100 | 1.8 ppb |
| Adams Village | 2,000 | 4.3 ppb |
| Alexandria Bay Village | 1,900 | 2.6 ppb |
| Pamelia Town Wd 4 & 5 | 1,857 | 4.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Evans Mills, 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 Evans Mills Village 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.