Fort Plain (V) Water Works, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Plain (V) Water Works at a glance
Fort Plain (V) Water Works serves about 2,250 people through 800 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: NY2800139; phone on file: 518-993-4271. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Fort Plain (V) Water Works's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Plain (V) Water Works is 8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 8 ppb |
How Fort Plain (V) Water Works 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. Fort Plain (V) Water Works's 2 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in New York and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Montgomery County
17 other systems share Montgomery County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Plain (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 |
| St. Johnsville Village Water Works | 1,700 | 2.5 ppb |
| Fonda (V) Water Works | 1,080 | 7.6 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; Fort Plain, 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 Plain (V) Water Works whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1570 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.