Hampshire House Adult Home, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Hampshire House Adult Home
Hampshire House Adult Home serves about 65 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Otsego County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3830015; phone on file: 607-432-6171. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hampshire House Adult Home is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Hampshire House Adult Home's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 4th percentile in New York and the 6th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Otsego County
35 other systems share Otsego County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hampshire House Adult Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oneonta City | 15,954 | 6 ppb |
| Cooperstown Village | 1,926 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richfield Springs Village | 1,200 | 3 ppb |
| Unadilla Village | 1,128 | 3.5 ppb |
| Otego Village | 1,010 | 1.3 ppb |
| Edmeston Water District | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Worcester Wd #2 - Worcester | 656 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morris Village | 652 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherry Valley Village | 620 | 3.7 ppb |
| Maryland Water District | 524 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Hampshire House Adult Home's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hampshire House Adult Home 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.