Latham Water District, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Latham Water District at a glance
Latham Water District serves about 85,590 people through 19,750 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Albany County, New York. EPA system ID: NY0100198; phone on file: 518-786-7338. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Latham Water District's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Latham Water District is 2.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Latham 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. Latham Water District's 2 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in New York and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Albany County
34 other systems share Albany County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Latham Water District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albany City | 98,000 | 13 ppb |
| Bethlehem Wd No 1 | 31,000 | 1.02 ppb |
| Guilderland Town Wd | 30,000 | 2.8 ppb |
| Cohoes City | 18,447 | 1.3 ppb |
| Watervliet City | 9,889 | 2 ppb |
| Colonie Village | 8,030 | 1 ppb |
| Menands Village | 4,500 | 3 ppb |
| Ravena Village | 4,500 | 1 ppb |
| Voorheesville Village | 3,100 | 6 ppb |
| Green Island Village | 2,900 | 2.6 ppb |
Next steps for Latham, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Latham, 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 Latham 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.