Forest Park Water Co Plant #3, NY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Forest Park Water Co Plant #3 at a glance
Forest Park Water Co Plant #3 serves about 67 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Westchester County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5903487; phone on file: 845-540-2901. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Forest Park Water Co Plant #3's lead record
That is up 11 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Park Water Co Plant #3 is 150 ppb across 21 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 150 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 13.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 9 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 38.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 29.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.45 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 Water Co Plant #3's 14 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New York and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
89 other systems share Westchester County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Forest Park Water Co Plant #3. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Yonkers City | 211,569 | 7.14 ppb |
| Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-1 | 146,732 | 12.2 ppb |
| Mount Vernon Water Department | 73,893 | 7.12 ppb |
| Westchester Joint Water Works | 59,629 | 3 ppb |
| White Plains City | 59,559 | 1.25 ppb |
| Veolia Water New York, Inc. Rd-2 | 57,301 | 2 ppb |
| Greenburgh Consolidated Wd #1 | 43,312 | 1.29 ppb |
| Yorktown Consold. Water Dist.#1 | 36,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ossining Water Department | 30,000 | 3 ppb |
| Cortlandt Consolidated Wd | 28,369 | 1.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Nyack, 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 Water Co Plant #3 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2100 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.