Lawtons Water Co, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Who runs the water here
Lawtons Water Co serves about 95 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Erie County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1400516; phone on file: 716-337-3444. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lawtons Water Co is 17.8 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 17.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
Against other New York systems
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. Lawtons Water Co's 2 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in New York and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Erie County
43 other systems share Erie County; 23 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lawtons Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ecwa Direct | 313,380 | 6 ppb |
| Buffalo Water Authority | 276,000 | 3 ppb |
| Ecwa Amherst | 92,697 | 9.85 ppb |
| Tonawanda, Town Water Dept. | 72,571 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Lancaster | 29,018 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa Orchard Park | 24,582 | 9.85 ppb |
| Ecwa West Seneca | 23,557 | 9.85 ppb |
| Grand Island Town Water Dept. | 19,500 | 1.13 ppb |
| Kenmore Village | 15,423 | 2.1 ppb |
| Ecwa Evans | 12,338 | 7.8 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Collins, 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 Lawtons Water Co 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.