Halcottsville Water District No. 1, NY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.8 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Halcottsville Water District No. 1 at a glance
Halcottsville Water District No. 1 serves about 48 people through 27 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Delaware County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1200264; phone on file: 845-586-2462. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 8.9 ppb from 2.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Halcottsville Water District No. 1 is 12 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
How Halcottsville Water District No. 1 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. Halcottsville Water District No. 1's 11.8 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in New York and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Delaware County
31 other systems share Delaware County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Halcottsville 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Delhi Village | 3,833 | 8.8 ppb |
| Sidney Village | 3,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walton Village | 3,010 | 0.7 ppb |
| Stamford Village | 1,280 | 1.8 ppb |
| Hancock Village | 1,182 | 3 ppb |
| Hobart Village | 700 | 3 ppb |
| Margaretville Village | 650 | 1.5 ppb |
| Downsville Water District | 617 | 1.5 ppb |
| Davenport Water District | 600 | 2.4 ppb |
| Roxbury Water District | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Margaretville, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Margaretville, 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 Halcottsville Water District No. 1 whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2410 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.