Lake Luzerne Water District, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Lake Luzerne Water District serves about 2,500 people through 998 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Warren County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5600108; phone on file: 518-696-2713. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 8.7 ppb from 11.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Luzerne Water District is 11.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
How Lake Luzerne Water District 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. Lake Luzerne Water District's 2.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in New York and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Warren County
23 other systems share Warren County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Luzerne Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Queensbury Water District | 24,450 | 3 ppb |
| Glens Falls City | 14,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warrensburg Water District | 3,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bolton Water District | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake George Village | 1,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Creek Water District | 1,100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chestertown Water District | 885 | 3.9 ppb |
| Ledgeview Village | 680 | 3.1 ppb |
| Diamond Point Water District | 493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arcady Bay Estates | 470 | 11.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Luzerne, 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 Lake Luzerne Water District 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.