Hudson Valley Water Co #5, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.35 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.
About Hudson Valley Water Co #5
Hudson Valley Water Co #5 serves about 75 people through 25 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 York. EPA system ID: NY5503416; phone on file: 516-364-1524. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Hudson Valley Water Co #5's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.95 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hudson Valley Water Co #5 is 16.75 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.35 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.95 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.37 ppb |
| 2022 | 16.75 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Hudson Valley Water Co #5 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. Hudson Valley Water Co #5's 1.35 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in New York and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
101 other systems share Ulster County; 61 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hudson Valley Water Co #5. 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; Woodbury, 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 Hudson Valley Water Co #5 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.