Lowville Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Lowville Village serves about 4,000 people through 1,500 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lewis County, New York. EPA system ID: NY2402365; phone on file: 315-376-2834. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lowville Village is 3.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.1 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. Lowville Village's 0.5 ppb sits at the 21st percentile in New York and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lewis County
14 other systems share Lewis County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lowville Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Croghan Village | 900 | 1.1 ppb |
| Copenhagen Village | 850 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lyons Falls Village | 850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Leyden Village | 820 | 9.5 ppb |
| Beaver Falls Water District | 782 | - |
| Harrisville (Diana Wd 1) | 700 | 5.5 ppb |
| Turin Village | 350 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lowville (T) Wd #1 | 350 | - |
| Denmark Wd 1 | 350 | - |
| Castorland Village | 320 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Lowville, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lowville, 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 Lowville 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.