Lucky Lake Wd, NY
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Lucky Lake Wd at a glance
Lucky Lake Wd serves about 60 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Sullivan County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5203356; phone on file: 845-794-5280. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 19 ppb from 20 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lucky Lake Wd is 3260 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 3260 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 42.5 ppb over 15 |
How Lucky Lake Wd 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. Lucky Lake Wd's 1 ppb sits at the 28th percentile in New York and the 51st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sullivan County
64 other systems share Sullivan County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lucky Lake Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Monticello Village | 8,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fallsburg Who-Ls-Sf | 7,850 | 2 ppb |
| Liberty Village | 3,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stevensville+Rfl | 3,250 | 1 ppb |
| Swan In Swan Lake | 2,900 | - |
| Emerald Green Lake Louise Marie Wc | 2,400 | 2.65 ppb |
| Livingston Manor Wd | 1,500 | 3 ppb |
| Wurtsboro Village | 1,400 | 7.01 ppb |
| Roscoe-Rockland Wd | 1,000 | 11 ppb |
| Adelaar Wd | 1,000 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Monticello, 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 Lucky Lake Wd 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.