High Falls Water District, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 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
High Falls Water District serves about 426 people through 167 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 Ulster County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5530250. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for High Falls Water District is 127 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 127 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 9 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. High Falls Water District's 2.7 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in New York and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Ulster County
101 other systems share Ulster County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than High Falls Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston (City) Water District | 24,000 | 7 ppb |
| New Paltz (Village) Water Dist | 7,523 | 1.97 ppb |
| Ulster Water District | 5,500 | 2.1 ppb |
| Port Ewen Water District | 4,500 | 3.7 ppb |
| Ellenville (Village) Water Dis | 4,300 | 8.6 ppb |
| Saugerties (Village) Water Dis | 4,200 | 1.4 ppb |
| Glasco Water District | 4,071 | 1.4 ppb |
| Highland Water District | 4,000 | 5.94 ppb |
| Marlborough Water District | 3,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern/Ulster Correctional Fa | 2,578 | 1.63 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cottekill, 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 High Falls 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.