Mcgraw Village, NY
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.1 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Mcgraw Village serves about 1,306 people through 412 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 groundwater, in Cortland County, New York. EPA system ID: NY1101758; phone on file: 607-836-6294. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.4 ppb from 14.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mcgraw Village is 14.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 14.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 9.5 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. Mcgraw Village's 12.1 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in New York and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Cortland County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mcgraw Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cortland (C) | 20,095 | 5 ppb |
| Homer Village-Newton Water Works | 4,368 | 2 ppb |
| Cortlandville Town Water | 4,300 | 3 ppb |
| Virgil W.D. #1 - Greek Peak Waterworks | 1,400 | 6.9 ppb |
| Marathon Village | 1,107 | 2.2 ppb |
| Cincinnatus Water District | 650 | 3.4 ppb |
| Pine Hill Mobile, Inc. | 253 | 1 ppb |
| Scott Water District No. 1 | 154 | 2.1 ppb |
| Riverside Manor Trailer Park | 131 | 2.8 ppb |
| Country Meadows Mhp | 122 | 0.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mcgraw, 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 Mcgraw 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.