Hector Water District, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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
Hector Water District serves about 1,340 people through 575 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 surface water, in Schuyler County, New York. EPA system ID: NY4801191; phone on file: 607-546-5286. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 19.7 ppb from 21.6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hector Water District is 21.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 21.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.8 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. Hector Water District's 1.9 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in New York and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Schuyler County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Hector Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Watkins Glen Village | 2,149 | 0.92 ppb |
| Montour Falls Village | 1,635 | 8.8 ppb |
| Odessa Village | 810 | 1.9 ppb |
| Dix Water District #1 | 201 | 1.5 ppb |
| Reading Wd #1 & #3 Consolidated Sampling | 68 | 1.5 ppb |
| Country Hill Manor | 57 | 1 ppb |
| Wildwood Mobile Home Park | 34 | 1 ppb |
| Reading Water District #2 | 30 | 1.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Burdett, 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 Hector Water District 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.