Fort Covington Wd, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Fort Covington Wd at a glance
Fort Covington Wd serves about 900 people through 310 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 groundwater, in Franklin County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1600007; phone on file: 518-358-2992. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Covington Wd is 7.1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.5 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. Fort Covington Wd's 2.1 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in New York and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Franklin County
14 other systems share Franklin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Covington Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Malone V | 13,232 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tupper Lake V | 5,500 | 2.3 ppb |
| Saranac Lake V | 5,345 | 1.1 ppb |
| Chateaugay V | 1,100 | 2.2 ppb |
| Paul Smiths College | 1,100 | 8.1 ppb |
| St Regis Falls Wd | 980 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cliffside Apartments | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bangor Wd | 375 | 6 ppb |
| Burke V | 273 | 1.1 ppb |
| Thayers Corners Wd | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Covington, 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 Fort Covington Wd 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.