Friendship Town Water District, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Friendship Town Water District serves about 1,380 people through 550 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 Allegany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0200319; phone on file: 585-973-7697. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Friendship Town Water District is 3.4 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.4 ppb |
Against other New York systems
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. Friendship Town Water District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in New York and the 29th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Allegany County
20 other systems share Allegany County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Friendship Town Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wellsville Village Public Water | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alfred State College | 3,600 | 1 ppb |
| Alfred University | 2,800 | 3 ppb |
| Houghton Water District | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Cuba Village Public Water | 1,800 | 3.4 ppb |
| Bolivar-Richburg Water System | 1,640 | 1.2 ppb |
| Alfred Village Water Supply | 1,300 | 3 ppb |
| Andover Village Public Water | 1,130 | 3 ppb |
| Scio Water District | 990 | 1.7 ppb |
| Angelica Village Public Water | 950 | 7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Friendship Town 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 Friendship Town Water District 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.