Green Meadow Acres, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Green Meadow Acres at a glance
Green Meadow Acres serves about 100 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Steuben County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NY5000743. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Green Meadow Acres's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Green Meadow Acres is 1.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Green Meadow Acres compares
Of the 605 New Jersey systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 52 have gone over at some point. Green Meadow Acres's 1.8 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in New Jersey and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Steuben County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Green Meadow Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Meadows Park (The) | 39 | 2.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Neptune, NJ 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 Green Meadow Acres 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.