Fishkill Plains, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Fishkill Plains serves about 900 people through 258 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 surface water, in Dutchess County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1302805; phone on file: 845-221-4303. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.3 ppb from 3.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fishkill Plains is 5.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.95 ppb |
How Fishkill Plains 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. Fishkill Plains's 5.1 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
147 other systems share Dutchess County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fishkill Plains. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Poughkeepsie Townwide Wd | 43,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Poughkeepsie City | 30,639 | 2.1 ppb |
| Beacon City | 14,370 | 1.78 ppb |
| United Wappinger Water Improvement Dist. | 14,000 | 5 ppb |
| Hyde Park Regional | 6,928 | 0.8 ppb |
| Rhinebeck Village Water | 6,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Wappingers Falls Village | 5,522 | 2.14 ppb |
| Fishkill Village | 4,101 | 2.1 ppb |
| Brinkerhoff Water District | 3,788 | 7.6 ppb |
| Rombout Water District | 3,000 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hopewell Jctn, 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 Fishkill Plains 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.