Godfreys Pond, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Godfreys Pond
Godfreys Pond serves about 40 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Genesee County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1819060. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Godfreys Pond's lead record
That is up 1.7 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Godfreys Pond is 40 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.65 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 40 ppb over 15 |
How Godfreys Pond 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. Godfreys Pond's 2.9 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in New York and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Genesee County
15 other systems share Genesee County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Godfreys Pond. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcwa Genesee | 16,541 | 5.4 ppb |
| Batavia City | 15,475 | 0 (not detected) |
| Batavia Consolidated W.D. | 5,445 | 2.6 ppb |
| Oakfield Village | 1,679 | 2 ppb |
| Elba Town Wd2 | 1,129 | 3.5 ppb |
| Alabama Water District No.2 | 1,119 | 3.5 ppb |
| Oakfield Town | 864 | 1.3 ppb |
| Alexander Village | 785 | 0.45 ppb |
| Alexander Town Wd2 | 744 | 3.5 ppb |
| Elba Village | 706 | 5.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bergen, 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 Godfreys Pond 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.