Greenville Water District No 1, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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. 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.
Greenville Water District No 1 at a glance
Greenville Water District No 1 serves about 1,100 people through 260 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 Greene County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1900028; phone on file: 518-966-8276. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Greenville Water District No 1 is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Greenville Water District No 1's 3 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in New York and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
33 other systems share Greene County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Greenville Water District No 1. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Catskill Village | 8,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Coxsackie Village | 4,010 | 1 ppb |
| Coxsackie Correctional Facility | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. | 2,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Athens Village | 1,700 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cairo Water District | 1,400 | 3 ppb |
| Hunter Village | 1,030 | 11.2 ppb |
| Ski Windham | 856 | 3 ppb |
| Tannersville Village | 629 | 1.1 ppb |
| Windham Mountain Village | 545 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Greenville, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Greenville, 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 Greenville Water District No 1 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.