Hensonville (Windham W.D.), NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Hensonville (Windham W.D.) at a glance
Hensonville (Windham W.D.) serves about 490 people through 306 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 groundwater, in Greene County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1900029; phone on file: 518-734-4170. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Hensonville (Windham W.D.)'s lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hensonville (Windham W.D.) is 26.45 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.02 ppb |
| 2021 | 26.45 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Hensonville (Windham W.D.)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in New York and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
33 other systems share Greene County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hensonville (Windham W.D.). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Catskill Village | 8,000 | 6.3 ppb |
| Coxsackie Village | 4,010 | 1 ppb |
| Coxsackie Correctional Facility | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sleepy Hollow Lake Water Co. | 2,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Athens Village | 1,700 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cairo Water District | 1,400 | 3 ppb |
| Greenville Water District No 1 | 1,100 | 3 ppb |
| Hunter Village | 1,030 | 11.2 ppb |
| Ski Windham | 856 | 3 ppb |
| Tannersville Village | 629 | 1.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hensonville, 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 Hensonville (Windham W.D.) 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.