Hamilton College Wd, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Who runs the water here
Hamilton College Wd serves about 2,672 people through 163 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Oneida County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3202470; phone on file: 315-859-4086. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hamilton College Wd is 26 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 8 ppb |
| 2019 | 26 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Hamilton College Wd's 1 ppb sits at the 36th percentile in New York and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Oneida County
42 other systems share Oneida County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hamilton College Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mvwa - Mohawk Valley Water Authority | 126,250 | 9 ppb |
| Rome City | 31,795 | 5 ppb |
| Lee Water District | 3,150 | 1 ppb |
| Sherrill - Kenwood Wd | 3,142 | - |
| Clinton Village | 3,000 | 3 ppb |
| Camden Village (Gu) | 2,800 | 1 ppb |
| Sauquoit Consolidated Wd (T/O/Paris) | 2,700 | 2 ppb |
| Verona Wd (Rte 365 + Hamlet) | 2,345 | - |
| Boonville Village | 2,300 | 4 ppb |
| Mohawk Correctional Facility | 1,925 | 4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clinton, 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 Hamilton College Wd 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.