Fultonville Village Pws, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.39 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.
Fultonville Village Pws at a glance
Fultonville Village Pws serves about 740 people through 254 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 Montgomery County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2800140; phone on file: 518-853-3815. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fultonville Village Pws's lead record
That is down 1.41 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fultonville Village Pws is 2.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.39 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 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. Fultonville Village Pws's 1.39 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in New York and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Montgomery County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fultonville Village Pws. 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 |
| Fort Plain (V) Water Works | 2,250 | 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 |
| 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; Fultonville, 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 Fultonville Village Pws 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.