Fonda (V) Water Works, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.6 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. 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 Fonda (V) Water Works
Fonda (V) Water Works serves about 1,080 people through 481 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 Montgomery County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2800138; phone on file: 518-853-4335. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Fonda (V) Water Works's lead record
That is up 2.4 ppb from 5.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fonda (V) Water Works is 17 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 11.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 10.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Against other New York systems
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. Fonda (V) Water Works's 7.6 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in New York and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Montgomery County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Fonda (V) Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam (C) | 20,700 | 13.9 ppb |
| Amsterdam (T) | 3,000 | - |
| Canajoharie (V) Water Works | 2,300 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fort Plain (V) Water Works | 2,250 | 2 ppb |
| St. Johnsville Village Water Works | 1,700 | 2.5 ppb |
| Palatine Bridge (V) Water Works | 900 | 2.1 ppb |
| Fultonville Village Pws | 740 | 1.39 ppb |
| Nelliston (V) Water Works | 535 | - |
| Florida (T) Water District | 432 | - |
| Capstone Center For Rehab And Nursing | 330 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fonda, 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 Fonda (V) Water Works 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.