Forest Park Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.88 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.
About Forest Park Estates
Forest Park Estates serves about 300 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sullivan County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5230201; phone on file: 845-783-1063. 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 down 3.12 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Park Estates is 5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.88 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
How Forest Park Estates 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. Forest Park Estates's 1.88 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in New York and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
64 other systems share Sullivan County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Forest Park Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monticello Village | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fallsburg Who-Ls-Sf | 7,850 | 2 ppb |
| Liberty Village | 3,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stevensville+Rfl | 3,250 | 1 ppb |
| Swan In Swan Lake | 2,900 | - |
| Emerald Green Lake Louise Marie Wc | 2,400 | 2.65 ppb |
| Livingston Manor Wd | 1,500 | 3 ppb |
| Wurtsboro Village | 1,400 | 7.01 ppb |
| Roscoe-Rockland Wd | 1,000 | 11 ppb |
| Adelaar Wd | 1,000 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Monroe, 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 Forest Park Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.