Hillcrest Manor Apartments, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Hillcrest Manor Apartments at a glance
Hillcrest Manor Apartments serves about 30 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Cortland County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1130008; phone on file: 607-749-4962. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 6.3 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hillcrest Manor Apartments is 25.7 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 25.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 3.4 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. Hillcrest Manor Apartments's 7.5 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in New York and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Cortland County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hillcrest Manor Apartments. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cortland (C) | 20,095 | 5 ppb |
| Homer Village-Newton Water Works | 4,368 | 2 ppb |
| Cortlandville Town Water | 4,300 | 3 ppb |
| Virgil W.D. #1 - Greek Peak Waterworks | 1,400 | 6.9 ppb |
| Mcgraw Village | 1,306 | 12.1 ppb |
| Marathon Village | 1,107 | 2.2 ppb |
| Cincinnatus Water District | 650 | 3.4 ppb |
| Pine Hill Mobile, Inc. | 253 | 1 ppb |
| Scott Water District No. 1 | 154 | 2.1 ppb |
| Riverside Manor Trailer Park | 131 | 2.8 ppb |
Next steps for Homer, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Homer, 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 Hillcrest Manor Apartments 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.