Magnolia Place West, NY

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.49 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.

About Magnolia Place West

Magnolia Place West serves about 51 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Noble County, New York. EPA system ID: IN5257016; phone on file: 973-624-9130. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Every lead result on file

The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Magnolia Place West is 0.49 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 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. Magnolia Place West's 0.49 ppb sits at the 20th percentile in New York and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).

Next steps for Brooklyn, NY

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brooklyn, 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 Magnolia Place West 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.