Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.98 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road at a glance
Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road serves about 43 people through 17 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 surface water, in Chautauqua County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0600394. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road's lead record
That is up 1.65 ppb from 1.33 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road is 2.98 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.98 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.61 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.17 ppb |
How Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road 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. Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road's 2.98 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in New York and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Chautauqua County
49 other systems share Chautauqua County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jamestown Bpu | 46,712 | 3.2 ppb |
| Dunkirk City | 12,743 | 9.7 ppb |
| Fredonia Village | 9,585 | 6.1 ppb |
| Chautauqua Utility District | 9,000 | 7.6 ppb |
| Westfield Village And Town | 3,890 | 1 ppb |
| Silver Creek Village | 3,100 | 0.27 ppb |
| North Chautauqua County Water District | 3,100 | 1.9 ppb |
| Brocton Portland Water District | 3,086 | 8.7 ppb |
| Carroll (T) Water District | 2,600 | 2.18 ppb |
| Hanover Wd #1 5&20 Slvr Crk To Catt Crk | 2,173 | 4.07 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Silver Creek, 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 Hanover Wd #2 - Bennett State Road 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.