Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.57 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2023). 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 Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community
Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community serves about 150 people through 43 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oswego County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3700907; phone on file: 585-514-9449. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community is 4.57 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.57 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. Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community's 4.57 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in New York and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
40 other systems share Oswego County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oswego City | 29,400 | 3 ppb |
| Fulton City | 16,600 | 3 ppb |
| Scriba Wd (Oswego) | 9,044 | 2 ppb |
| Richland Town Pws | 3,950 | 1.7 ppb |
| Pulaski Village | 2,398 | 1.1 ppb |
| Phoenix Village | 2,138 | 1.2 ppb |
| Mexico Village | 2,100 | 1.2 ppb |
| Hannibal Town Water District #2 | 2,000 | 2 ppb |
| Sandy Creek/Lacona Joint Waterworks | 1,469 | 2.5 ppb |
| Sandy Creek Town Wd #1 & #3 | 1,464 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rochester, 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 Idle Wheels Manufactured Home Community 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.