Hudson Valley Apartments, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.18 ppb (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. 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.
About Hudson Valley Apartments
Hudson Valley Apartments serves about 150 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ulster County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NY5518034. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (2.36 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hudson Valley Apartments is 5.22 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.18 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.36 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.36 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.22 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Hudson Valley Apartments compares
Of the 605 New Jersey systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 52 have gone over at some point. Hudson Valley Apartments's 2.18 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in New Jersey and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Fairfield, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fairfield, NJ 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 Hudson Valley 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.