Heritage Village Retirement Campus, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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. 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.
Heritage Village Retirement Campus at a glance
Heritage Village Retirement Campus serves about 250 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Chautauqua County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0600820; phone on file: 716-985-6834. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heritage Village Retirement Campus is 9.3 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 9.3 ppb |
How Heritage Village Retirement Campus 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. Heritage Village Retirement Campus's 2 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in New York and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Chautauqua County
49 other systems share Chautauqua County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heritage Village Retirement Campus. 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 Gerry, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gerry, 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 Heritage Village Retirement Campus whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1380 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.