Glens Falls City, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Glens Falls City
Glens Falls City serves about 14,000 people through 5,200 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Warren County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5600104. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Glens Falls City is 2.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 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. Glens Falls City's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in New York and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Warren County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Glens Falls City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Queensbury Water District | 24,450 | 3 ppb |
| Warrensburg Water District | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Luzerne Water District | 2,500 | 2.5 ppb |
| Bolton Water District | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake George Village | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Creek Water District | 1,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chestertown Water District | 885 | 3.9 ppb |
| Ledgeview Village | 680 | 3.1 ppb |
| Diamond Point Water District | 493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arcady Bay Estates | 470 | 11.3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Glens Falls City'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 Glens Falls City 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.