Hancock Village, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
About Hancock Village
Hancock Village serves about 1,182 people through 483 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 Delaware County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1200266; phone on file: 607-637-5341. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.1 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hancock Village is 16.1 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.27 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.07 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 16.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.51 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.7 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. Hancock Village's 3 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in New York and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Delaware County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hancock Village. 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 |
| 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) |
| Franklin Village | 481 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Hancock, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hancock, 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 Hancock Village 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.