Font Grove Water District, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Font Grove Water District at a glance
Font Grove Water District serves about 45 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Albany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0123019; phone on file: 518-439-4865. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Font Grove Water District is 3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
How Font Grove Water District 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. Font Grove Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in New York and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
34 other systems share Albany County; 33 of them have a higher latest lead result than Font Grove Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albany City | 98,000 | 13 ppb |
| Latham Water District | 85,590 | 2 ppb |
| Bethlehem Wd No 1 | 31,000 | 1.02 ppb |
| Guilderland Town Wd | 30,000 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cohoes City | 18,447 | 1.3 ppb |
| Watervliet City | 9,889 | 2 ppb |
| Colonie Village | 8,030 | 1 ppb |
| Menands Village | 4,500 | 3 ppb |
| Ravena Village | 4,500 | 1 ppb |
| Voorheesville Village | 3,100 | 6 ppb |
Next steps for Slingerlands, NY
Look up your address in Font Grove Water District's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Font Grove Water District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1430 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.