Hillside (Fka Rural Atlantic), NY
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Hillside (Fka Rural Atlantic) serves about 74 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Orange County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3503565; phone on file: 845-986-1120. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 9.85 ppb from 5.55 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hillside (Fka Rural Atlantic) is 15.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 15.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 5.55 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.05 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.85 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.25 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. Hillside (Fka Rural Atlantic)'s 15.4 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New York and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Orange County
129 other systems share Orange County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hillside (Fka Rural Atlantic). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kiryas Joel | 51,623 | 9 ppb |
| Middletown City | 30,000 | 1 ppb |
| Newburgh City | 29,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| New Windsor Consolidated Wd | 25,667 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newburgh Consolidated Wd | 22,282 | 1.5 ppb |
| Wallkill Consolidated Wd | 18,450 | 1.97 ppb |
| Monroe Village | 12,000 | 3 ppb |
| Woodbury Cons. W.D. | 10,845 | 8.5 ppb |
| Cornwall-On-Hudson | 9,700 | 1 ppb |
| Port Jervis City | 9,000 | 3.04 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Hillside (Fka Rural Atlantic) 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.