Maccormick Secure Center, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Maccormick Secure Center serves about 50 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Tompkins County, New York. EPA system ID: NY5405797; phone on file: 607-539-7121. 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 8 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Maccormick Secure Center is 10 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 10 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
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. Maccormick Secure Center's 2 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in New York and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
49 other systems share Tompkins County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Maccormick Secure Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | 31,581 | 2.4 ppb |
| Ithaca City | 29,457 | 2.4 ppb |
| Ithaca Town Wd | 13,000 | 8.8 ppb |
| Cayuga Heights Village | 3,170 | 0.48 ppb |
| Lansing (V) | 3,100 | 0.48 ppb |
| Lansing (T) Consolidated Wd | 3,000 | 0.48 ppb |
| Groton Village | 2,470 | 2 ppb |
| Trumansburg Village | 2,300 | 2.8 ppb |
| Newfield Wds | 2,300 | 9 ppb |
| Dryden Village | 2,000 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brooktondale, 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 Maccormick Secure Center whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1760 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.