Grape Country Estates, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2023). 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.
About Grape Country Estates
Grape Country Estates serves about 51 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ontario County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3421320. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Grape Country Estates's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Grape Country Estates is 1 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 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. Grape Country Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 27th percentile in New York and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
34 other systems share Ontario County; 31 of them have a higher latest lead result than Grape Country Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Geneva City | 13,334 | 3 ppb |
| Canandaigua-Farmington Consolidated W.D. | 13,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Canandaigua City | 11,264 | 1.2 ppb |
| Mcwa - Geneva | 8,532 | 4 ppb |
| Canandaigua Town Cons. Wd | 6,800 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hopewell Cons Wd 1 | 3,781 | 1.3 ppb |
| Gorham Town Wd | 3,420 | 2.8 ppb |
| Geneva Wd #2 Csa | 2,680 | 2.1 ppb |
| Seneca Town Wd | 2,625 | 2.1 ppb |
| Victor Village | 2,443 | 5800 ppb |
Next steps for Prattsburgh, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Prattsburgh, 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 Grape Country Estates 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.