Leatherstocking Community, NY
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2016-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Leatherstocking Community
Leatherstocking Community serves about 77 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Herkimer County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2100654; phone on file: 315-723-4270. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Leatherstocking Community is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Leatherstocking Community's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in New York and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Herkimer County
33 other systems share Herkimer County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Leatherstocking Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ilion (V) Water Works | 8,053 | 36 ppb |
| Herkimer Village | 7,606 | 19 ppb |
| Little Falls City | 4,605 | 8.96 ppb |
| Frankfort (V) Water Works | 2,995 | 1.7 ppb |
| Mohawk (V) Water Works | 2,985 | 1.5 ppb |
| Dolgeville (V) Pws | 2,166 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Forge-Thendara Water District | 1,275 | 3.7 ppb |
| East Herkimer Water District | 1,024 | - |
| West Winfield Village | 862 | 5.64 ppb |
| Town Of Webb Wd#1 | 780 | - |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Leatherstocking Community's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Leatherstocking 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.