Lima Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.02 ppb (monitoring period 2019-2021). 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.
Lima Village at a glance
Lima Village serves about 2,900 people through 650 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 surface water, in Livingston County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2501021. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lima Village's lead record
That is down 2.68 ppb from 11.7 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lima Village is 11.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 9.02 ppb |
| 2018 | 11.7 ppb over 10 |
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. Lima Village's 9.02 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in New York and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
27 other systems share Livingston County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lima Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lcwsa Consolidated Water District | 9,892 | 9 ppb |
| Dansville Village | 8,900 | 2.8 ppb |
| Geneseo Village | 8,000 | 5.2 ppb |
| Mount Morris Village | 3,500 | 1 ppb |
| Avon Village | 3,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Avon Town Wd | 3,000 | - |
| York Water District | 2,700 | 1.7 ppb |
| Town Of Geneseo | 2,605 | - |
| Caledonia Village | 2,201 | 4.6 ppb |
| Nunda Village | 1,600 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for New York
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; your state 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 Lima Village 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.