Hanover Wd #3 - Forestville, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 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 #3 - Forestville at a glance
Hanover Wd #3 - Forestville serves about 804 people through 400 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 Chautauqua County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0600363. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hanover Wd #3 - Forestville is 4.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.4 ppb |
How Hanover Wd #3 - Forestville 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 #3 - Forestville's 2.3 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in New York and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
49 other systems share Chautauqua County; 23 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hanover Wd #3 - Forestville. 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 |
Next steps for Silver Creek, NY
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 #3 - Forestville 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.