Fall Creek Park, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Fall Creek Park
Fall Creek Park serves about 90 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Tompkins County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5405809; phone on file: 607-279-1599. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fall Creek Park is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Fall Creek Park 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. Fall Creek Park's 1 ppb sits at the 29th percentile in New York and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tompkins County
49 other systems share Tompkins County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fall Creek Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | 31,581 | 2.4 ppb |
| Ithaca City | 29,457 | 2.4 ppb |
| Ithaca Town Wd | 13,000 | 8.8 ppb |
| Cayuga Heights Village | 3,170 | 0.48 ppb |
| Lansing (V) | 3,100 | 0.48 ppb |
| Lansing (T) Consolidated Wd | 3,000 | 0.48 ppb |
| Groton Village | 2,470 | 2 ppb |
| Trumansburg Village | 2,300 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newfield Wds | 2,300 | 9 ppb |
| Dryden Village | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Freeville, 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 Fall Creek Park 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.